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Cover of Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

Thomson, Alexis; Miles, Alexander

The Manual of Surgery, Volume II, is a comprehensive surgical textbook that opens with a detailed discussion…

Cover of The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2

The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2

Sir Edward Tyas Cook

The volume is the second half of Sir Edward Tyas Cook’s two‑part biography of Florence Nightingale, a work…

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

United States. Bureau of Animal Industry; Harbaugh, W. H. (William Heyser); Huidekoper, Rush Shippen; Michener, Charles B.; Pearson, Leonard

This work is a government‑issued veterinary manual produced by the United States Bureau of Animal Industry,…

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

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

Jefferis, B. G. (Benjamin Grant); Nichols, J. L.

The work is a Victorian‑era handbook that blends moral instruction with practical advice on health,…

Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. II

Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. II

Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin’s *Zoonomia* II is a nineteenth‑century medical treatise that reads like a catalogue of…

Cover of Treatise on Poisons In relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic

Treatise on Poisons In relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic

Sir Robert Christison

Robert Christison’s Treatise on Poisons is a comprehensive medical‑juridical handbook that opens with a…

Civics and Health

Civics and Health

William H. Allen

Allen’s Civics and Health is a practical treatise on public‑health hygiene aimed at educators, physicians,…

Cover of Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say

Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say

Martha Meir Allen

Martha M. Allen’s work is a polemical treatise on the physiological dangers of alcohol, assembled from a…

Cover of A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School

A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School

Catharine Esther Beecher

This work is a practical treatise on domestic economy aimed specifically at young women, presented as a…

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

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 work is a detailed clinical study of injuries caused by small‑calibre bullets during the South African…

Cover of History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present: Moral and physical reasons for its performance, with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce

History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present: Moral and physical reasons for its performance, with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce

P. C. Remondino

The work is a nineteenth‑century medical treatise that surveys the practice of circumcision from its earliest…

Woman Her Sex and Love Life

Woman Her Sex and Love Life

William J. Robinson

The book is a medical‑style handbook written by William J.

The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure

The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure

Edward Hooker Dewey

The No‑Breakfast Plan and the Fasting‑Cure is a health‑treatment manual written by Dr.

Preventable Diseases

Preventable Diseases

Woods Hutchinson

The work is a sweeping survey of nineteenth‑ and early‑twentieth‑century medical thought, framed as a…

Cover of The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

Hecker, J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl); Caius, John

The work is a scholarly compilation of three treatises by the German physician J. F. C.

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, and Feeding and Management; with the Diseases to Which They Are Subject, and the Remedies Best Adapted to Their Cure

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, and Feeding and Management; with the Diseases to Which They Are Subject, and the Remedies Best Adapted to Their Cure

Robert Jennings

Robert Jennings’s work is a practical treatise that blends agricultural economics with the science of animal…

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Psychotherapy

Hugo Münsterberg

Psychotherapy, by Hugo Münsterberg, is a scholarly attempt to map the emerging field of scientific psychology…

A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine

Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine

Henry Weightman Stelwagon

Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing

Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing

George Barton Cutten

The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern

The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern

David C. Taylor

Select Temperance Tracts

Select Temperance Tracts

American Tract Society

Papers on Health

Papers on Health

John Kirk

Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases

Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases

Rennie Wilbur Doane