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Chapter II — GREEK MEDICINE, Alexandrian School

In The Evolution of Modern Medicine

Read by Catherine Emerson

Sir William Osler and Sir William Osler

This is the manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in 1913…

Georgic I

In The Georgics: A Poem of the Land

Read by George Emerson

Virgil

A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such ma…

Fir-cone Mushroom to Maned Mushroom

In Mushrooms and Toadstools (Third Edition)

Read by Catherine Emerson

Worthington George Smith

This is a useful, but not comprehensive description of both edible and poisonous fungi found in Great Britain. Although the book is well ill…

Wingfold and Barbara

In There and Back

Read by George Emerson

George MacDonald

An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in …

Easter Tuesday.—Paul's Sermon on the Power and Blessings of Christ's Resurrecti…

In Epistle Sermons, Volume 2

Read by Laura Emerson

Martin Luther

Sermons from Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost preached by the famous German reformer Martin Luther.All who retain the good old custom of the f…

Section 32: Bruadar and Smith and Glinn

In Legends of Saints and Sinners

Read by Laurel Emerson

Douglas Hyde

"I have called the present volume "Legends of Saints and Sinners," which to a certain extent it is; but I mean it for a book …

There is an Air of Majesty

In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems

Read by George Emerson

Alfred Castner King

"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…

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