Health & Medicine

Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts

Alexander Wynter Blyth

Alexander Wynter Blyth’s Poisons, Their Effects and Detection is a comprehensive reference manual aimed at…

The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 1 of 2

Sir Edward Tyas Cook

The work is a scholarly biography of Florence Nightingale compiled by Sir Edward Tyas Cook, who bases his…

Plain Facts for Old and Young

John Harvey Kellogg

Plain Facts for Old and Young is an instructional work on sexual physiology, ethics and health written by…

Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part I. For the year 1757. Giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours, of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.

Various; Royal Society

Philosophical Transactions, Vol. L, Part I (1757) is a bound collection of scientific papers presented to the…

Galen: On the Natural Faculties

Galen

The work is a scholarly translation of Galen’s treatise on the natural faculties, rendered from the Greek…

Scurvy, Past and Present

Alfred F. Hess

Scurvy, Past and Present is a scholarly medical treatise by Alfred F.

History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills

Robert B. Shaw

The work is a scholarly history of the W.H. Comstock Company, the rural New York manufacturer best known for…

The Electric Bath

George M. Schweig

George M. Schweig’s The Electric Bath is a nineteenth‑century technical treatise that opens with a candid…

The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes

Hill, Lewis Webb; Eckman, Rena S.

The book is a practical medical manual that presents the “starvation treatment” for diabetes as advocated by…

Old Age Deferred The causes of old age and its postponement by hygienic and therapeutic measures

Arnold Lorand

Arnold Lorand’s Old Age Deferred is a medical treatise that sets out to explain how hygiene, diet, and the…

The Animal Parasites of Man

Fantham, Harold Benjamin; Braun, Max; Stephens, J. W. W. (John William Watson); Theobald, Fred. V.

The work is a comprehensive, scholarly survey of the parasites that infest humans, assembled by a team of…

The growth of medicine from the earliest times to about 1800

Albert H. Buck

Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India.

Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham

The seven books of Paulus Ægineta, volume 1 (of 3): translated from the Greek: with a commentary embracing a complete view of the knowledge possessed by the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians on all subjects connected with medicine and surgery

Aegineta Paulus

Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth

Henry Lovejoy Ambler

Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated

Max Birnbaum

Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part II. For the year 1758. Giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours, of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.

Various; Royal Society

Medical symbolism in connection with historical studies in the arts of healing and hygiene

Thomas S. Sozinskey

Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.

Thomson, Alexis; Miles, Alexander

The Great American Fraud The Patent Medicine Evil

Samuel Hopkins Adams

A Yankee doctor in paradise

S. M. Lambert

Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1

Witthaus, R. A. (Rudolph August); Becker, Tracy C.

Eminent doctors: Their lives and their work; Vol. 2 of 2

G. T. Bettany

Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles

Daniel Hack Tuke