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338 public-domain health & medicine books, summarised. Page 7 of 8.
In Mesopotamia
Maurice Nicoll
HOOK A physician chronicles the brutal, sweltering reality of medical service in the Mesopotamian campaign, where the greatest enemies are not bullets, but heat, thirst, and the fraying of the human spirit.
Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 4: The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author
Benjamin Rush
An urgent chronicle of yellow fever in post-Revolutionary Philadelphia, this volume documents the struggle of early American medicine to understand, treat, and ultimately survive the recurring pestilence that haunted the young nation’s capital.
Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922): Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health
New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health
This official government inquiry provides a stark, unvarnished look at the public health crisis of sexually transmitted diseases in early 20th-century New Zealand. It serves as both a clinical breakdown of the problem and a blueprint for social and legislative reform.
Some Medical Aspects of Old Age: Being the Linacre lecture, 1922, St. John's college, Cambridge
Rolleston, Humphry Davy, Sir
This scholarly exploration of the twilight of human life examines the intersection of biology, medicine, and history to distinguish between the natural processes of aging and the onset of disease.
The People's Idea of God: Its Effect On Health And Christianity
Mary Baker Eddy
This sermon explores the profound link between how humanity defines the Divine and the resulting quality of human health, character, and spiritual liberty.
The Tuberculosis Nurse: Her Function and Her Qualifications: A Handbook for Practical Workers in the Tuberculosis Campaign
Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte
Public health nursing is a demanding, systematic campaign to bring order to the chaos of infectious disease. This handbook serves as a professional blueprint for organizing effective community interventions against tuberculosis.
The Vitamine Manual
Walter Hollis Eddy
HOOK This technical guide captures the urgent, evolving science of nutrition at the dawn of the 1920s, documenting the discovery of "vitamines" as the essential, invisible keys to human health.
As a Matter of Course
Annie Payson Call
The pursuit of a calm, purposeful existence often founders not on great tragedies, but on the accumulation of minor, self-imposed irritations that clutter the mind and exhaust the nervous system.
Introductory notes on lying-in institutions
Florence Nightingale
When specialized lying-in wards trigger fatal disease outbreaks rather than safety, a critical inquiry reveals that improper hospital design and management endanger the very mothers and infants they were built to protect.
Overweight and Underweight
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Weight management is not a matter of rapid magic or moral failure, but a lifetime accounting of energy, habit, and medical common sense.
A System of Midwifery
Edward Rigby
A precise, methodical exploration of obstetrical science, this text charts the physiological mechanics of human gestation, the natural progression of labor, and the clinical management of severe reproductive complications.
Barium: A Cause of the Loco-Weed Disease
Albert C. (Albert Cornelius) Crawford
A government botanist sets out to solve a persistent livestock mystery on the American plains, tracing a devastating disease directly to the mineral toxins hidden within range weeds.
Leprosy
G. Armauer (Gerhard Armauer) Hansen
A landmark nineteenth-century clinical study replaces centuries of terror and folklore with precise microscopic observation, establishing leprosy as a specific, bacterial infection that demands rational public health measures rather than ancient superstitions.
What to eat and when
Susanna Cocroft
Fueling the body requires more than whim or habit; it demands an understanding of cellular repair, metabolic chemistry, and the quiet harmony between physical vigor and a sound mind.
An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art: Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time
B. L. (Benjamin L.) Hill
When acute illness strikes the nineteenth-century household, healing begins not with radical intervention, but with precise, low-dose botanical tinctures and simple domestic care.
Rudimental Divine Science
Mary Baker Eddy
Spiritual freedom requires discarding the illusion that matter rules existence, grounding all reality and healing in a single, infinite divine Mind.
Sanitation in Panama
William Crawford Gorgas
Before mosquito control turned Panama from a deadly trap into a viable canal route, public health was driven by guesswork, fear, and crippling mortality rates.
Vivisection
Albert Leffingwell
This collection of essays offers a measured, forceful critique of the practice of performing painful experiments on living animals in medical education and research. It stands as a pivotal document in the history of medical ethics and the movement for animal protection.
The eastern or Turkish bath
Wilson, Erasmus, Sir
The bath is an ancient human instinct, a vital necessity for the body that transcends culture and time, offering a path to health, cleanliness, and profound physical restoration.
The Sweating Sickness: A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse
John Caius
This mid-sixteenth-century medical treatise serves as both a clinical observation of a terrifying, rapid-onset plague and a desperate plea for the English people to embrace temperance and order.
Greek Biology & Greek Medicine
Charles Singer
The foundations of modern biology and medicine rest upon the careful observations and rational inquiries initiated by the ancient Greeks. This concise history traces that intellectual evolution from early folk traditions to the sophisticated clinical methods that define the physician’s craft today.
The Law and Medical Men
R. Vashon (Robert Vashon) Rogers
The intersection of the scalpel and the gavel requires a delicate balance, where the duty to heal meets the cold, rigorous mandates of the law. This primer navigates the historical and practical obligations that bind physicians, surgeons, and their related professions to the courts.
Cancer: Its Cause and Treatment, Volume 2 (of 2)
Lucius Duncan Bulkley
The rise of cancer in the early 20th century, the author argues, is a direct consequence of the indulgent habits of modern civilization, and it can be reversed through strict dietary and metabolic control.
On the origin of inflammation of the veins: and of the causes, consequences, and treatment of purulent deposits
Lee, Henry, M.D.
This medical treatise examines how localized injuries and infections migrate through the circulatory system to produce systemic, often fatal, purulent deposits. It provides a clinical, mid-19th-century investigation into the life-saving or life-threatening nature of blood coagulation.
Rudimental Divine Science
Mary Baker Eddy
This concise guide outlines the fundamental principles of Christian Science, offering a spiritual framework for understanding God, the nature of reality, and the practice of divine Mind-healing.
The essentials of bandaging
Berkeley Hill
This clinical handbook serves as a foundational guide for surgical students and practitioners, detailing the precise mechanical application of bandages, splints, and apparatus for common injuries and operations. It provides a methodical, hands-on look at the physical management of the human body in a…
Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils: Their Effect on General Intelligence
Margaret Cobb Rogers
A rigorous scientific inquiry, this study challenges the early 20th-century belief that removing a child’s adenoids and tonsils would automatically unlock latent intellectual potential.
A Treatise on Fractures, Luxations, and Other Affections of the Bones
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Desault
This surgical manual provides a rigorous, clinical look at eighteenth-century bone injury management, detailing the specific mechanics of fractures and dislocations through the lens of a pioneering French surgeon’s practice.
Conception Control and Its Effects on the Individual and the Nation
Florence Elizabeth Barrett
The question of how to limit child-bearing occupies the center of this 1922 medical and moral inquiry, which argues that artificial methods of birth control are both unnecessary and socially destructive.
How to Care for the Insane: A Manual for Nurses
William D. Granger
The work of a psychiatric nurse is a demanding, delicate balance of firm discipline, profound patience, and the constant exercise of human kindness.
The London Medical Gazette
Various
A volatile mix of clinical instruction, bitter professional feuds, and emergency medicine reveals the frantic world of nineteenth-century British healthcare.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887: Volume 1, Number 10
Unknown
A mid-nineteenth-century reform periodical offers a sweeping vision of human potential, combining radical educational theory, unconventional medical discoveries, and a newly mapped blueprint of the human brain.
The Fun of Getting Thin: How to Be Happy and Reduce the Waist Line
Samuel G. (Samuel George) Blythe
A forty-three-year-old newspaperman faces down his forty-seven-pound excess, dumping complicated medical fads to test a brutal truth: the only way to lose fat is to stop putting so much in your mouth.
Observations on insanity
John Haslam
Observations of human minds unraveling reveal how thin the boundary remains between clear reason and unseated thought.
Theory of circulation by respiration
Emma Willard
A bold, singular claim that heat and steam generated within the lungs—not the mechanical pumping of the heart—drive the movement of human blood.
A Treatise on Fever
Southwood Smith
Fever is not a scattered collection of unrelated symptoms, but a single, ordered sequence of physical changes that begins in the nervous system and moves inexorably into vascular inflammation.
Insanity: Its Causes and Prevention
Henry Putnam Stearns
Modern civilization places severe structural demands on the human mind, turning daily living into a high-stakes competition that strains vulnerable nervous systems.
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The Bedbug [1934]
C. L. Marlatt
Driven from hiding by prolonged hunger, the bedbug will abandon its nocturnal habits to attack sleeping prey in broad daylight.
Music in Medicine
Sidney Licht
A clinical proposal to treat the human body with melody and rhythm instead of mere sentiment.
The human foot and the human hand
Humphry, George Murray, Sir
The human body is an intricate machine, where the architecture of the foot and hand reveals both our physical purpose and the dignity of our species. Through careful observation, the mundane becomes a study of design.
The White Spark: A New Book, Giving Out a New Philosophy and the Mysteries of the Universe. The Handbook of the Millennium and the New Dispensation
Orville Livingston Leach
The universe is a vast, mechanical clockwork of spirit and energy, and you hold the key to its hidden machinery. This radical synthesis of natural philosophy, dietary reform, and utopian politics promises to unlock the mysteries of life, health, and cosmic order.
Horse Secrets
A. S. (Alexander Septimus) Alexander
The horse trade is a minefield of artifice, where a keen eye and a sharp wit are the only defenses against the clever deceptions of the unscrupulous.
The Indian operation of couching for cataract
Robert Henry Elliot
A ancient surgical technique, preserved for millennia in India, meets the relentless scrutiny of early twentieth-century pathology.
Dress and care of the feet: : showing their natural shape and construction
John Lord Peck
A practical guide to the anatomy, deformities, and proper shoemaking for the human foot, this Victorian manual exposes how fashionable footwear causes crippling ailments while offering sensible remedies for lasting comfort.
Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand
New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into various aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand
An urgent investigation into a 1930s health crisis reveals how economic pressures, changing social attitudes, and clandestine procedures combined to turn illegal medical interventions into a major driver of national maternal mortality.
"Speaking of Operations--"
Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
A gentleman’s vague, wandering abdominal pain leads him directly into the hands of fashionable specialists, where he discovers that getting carved up yields the greatest conversational currency in human history.
A treatise on foreign teas: Abstracted from an ingenious work, lately published, entitled An essay on the nerves
Hugh Smith
A stern eighteenth-century medical warning gives way to a bold commercial pitch, insisting that daily cups of imported green and bohea tea ruin the human nervous system while offering an herbal domestic brew as the ultimate physiological salvation.
Psycho Vox
Charles Wesley Emerson
True vocal power is not built by mechanical strain, but by aligning the mind's intent with the body's natural anatomical design.