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15 public-domain health & medicine books, summarised. Page 1 of 1.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition
Alexis Thomson
When the delicate machinery of the human frame is shattered by accident or marred by disease, the surgeon’s task is to navigate the anatomy of the living with both the caution of a mechanic and the precision of an artisan. This volume offers a clinical map of the extremities, head, and neck, providing a systematic…
Zoonomia
Erasmus Darwin
One mind inhabits the large limbs of the world, wielding the entire organic frame as a single, diffusive soul. This sprawling medical map attempts to chart that soul by organizing every human ailment into a logical, mechanical system.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900: Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
George Henry Makins
The quiet, precise observations of a surgeon’s field notes reveal how modern ballistics transformed the very nature of human trauma.
Insects and Diseases: A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
Rennie Wilbur Doane
Small, silent, and often invisible, the carriers of the world’s most devastating plagues live right beside us. Understanding their secret lives is the first step toward reclaiming our health from the tiny wings and legs that spread disease.
Cattle and Their Diseases: Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, and Feeding and Management
Robert Jennings
A masterclass in the nineteenth-century science of husbandry, this compendium offers the definitive guide to maintaining bovine health, from the delicate art of selecting breeding stock to the urgent administration of life-saving veterinary remedies.
The Home Medical Library, Volume 2 (of 6)
Unknown
When illness strikes the home, knowledge is the first line of defense. This guide provides a clinical, no-nonsense look at how to manage everything from common ailments to the gravest threats to family health.
The Psychology of Singing: A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern
David C. (David Clark) Taylor
Modern science has failed to explain the beauty of the human voice, leaving students trapped in a maze of contradictory mechanical rules that actually hinder the very instrument they are intended to perfect.
Preventable Diseases
Woods Hutchinson
Your body is a bustling, self-defending republic of living cells, and understanding its war-time protocols is your best shield against the unseen invaders that cause disease.
Psychotherapy
Hugo Münsterberg
The mind holds a hidden power to reshape itself, turning the mechanisms of attention and belief into tools for healing the most stubborn nervous afflictions. By understanding the brain as a physical system, we can unlock the gates to our own recovery.
The Task of Social Hygiene
Havelock Ellis
To improve society is not to force it into a rigid mold, but to foster the conditions where human life can expand, flourish, and achieve a newfound freedom from outdated, restrictive traditions.
The Home Medical Library, Volume 1 (of 6)
Unknown
HOOK This guide serves as a bridge between the turn-of-the-century household and the physician, offering pragmatic, life-saving protocols for an age before universal access to hospital care.
Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners: A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis
Knowledge is the ultimate safety, providing a guiding light through the physical and moral pitfalls that threaten the health and character of the individual.
History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present
P. C. (Peter Charles) Remondino
This investigation traces the long, often contentious journey of a single ancient surgical rite, arguing that its persistence across diverse cultures reveals as much about human biology as it does about shifting social morality.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera
T. H. Pardo de Tavera’s seminal work serves as a foundational bridge between ancient indigenous wisdom and modern pharmacology, cataloging the lush, curative landscape of the Philippine Archipelago with rigorous botanical precision and deep cultural empathy.
The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure
Edward Hooker Dewey
What if the key to health and vitality lies not in what you eat, but in when you choose not to eat at all?