Medical
Infection and Immunity
Read by J. M. Smallheer
George M. Sternberg
Infection and Immunity with Special Reference to the Prevention of Infectious Diseases presents a subject that is as relevant today as it wa…
A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used…
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Richard Mead
This is a work written about the plague in France and how to prevent its spread. It is considered an important historical work for the unde…
Malaria: A Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome
Read by Leon Harvey
William Henry Samuel Jones
This short book has the objective of showing how important it is to stamp out malaria as soon as possible. Unlike a plague that suddenly tak…
Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty
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Stephen Coleridge
Vivisection is a pejorative term used by opponents of the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of physiological…
An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays
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Sir William Osler
Here are thirteen biographical sketches of physicians penned by one of the founders of modern medicine, William Osler, published in 1908. &…
Microbe Hunters
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Paul De Kruif
Microbe Hunters provides dramatized accounts of eleven early pioneers of microbiology and their important discoveries. Beginning in 1650 wit…
Religion and Health
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James Joseph Walsh
In the introductory chapter and the one following we find the strong presentation of his thesis on the everlasting reality of religion. The …
Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy
Read by David Wales
James Moores Ball
Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…
Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
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Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Advisory Committee On Human Radiation Experiments
Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and ra…
History of the Johnstown Flood
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Willis Fletcher Johnson
An account of the Johnstown Flood, the most devastating loss of civilian life in the United States prior to the terrorist attacks of Septemb…
Malaria in Greek History
Read by Leon Harvey
William Henry Samuel Jones
This book is an attempt to correct and develop the theory proposed tentatively in the little work Malaria. Put briefly, this theory is as fo…
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
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Elizabeth Blackwell
A fascinating account of the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. She writes of her struggles in being accepted to …
Post Mortem: Essays, Historical And Medical
Read by David Wales
Charles MacLaurin and Charles Maclaurin
This 1922 collection of extensive essays comprises well written biographies of a few famous folk. The life narratives include analyses of me…
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
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Edward Jenner
This collection of three publications details Edward Jenner's investigations into the connection between smallpox and coxpox, and the creati…
On Famine Fever and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus
Read by Pamela Nagami
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), professor of medicine and pathology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, published more than 2000 papers an…
Health, Disease, and Everything in Between
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Various
This collection is a mix of poems from several authors, all of which talk about health and disease from both the patient and the doctor's pe…
An Essay of the Shaking Palsy
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James Parkinson
This publication is said to be the first to present a systematic view of what was later named Parkinson's disease. Six case studies are desc…
The Mesmeric Guide, for Family Use
Read by Jordan Watts
S. D. Saunders
Aimed at "those who judge of a Science by its practical utility and think that one minute spent in applying it to the benefit of mankin…
The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century
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Edward Wright Byrn
The 1800s saw a meteoric rise in modern technology in many areas. The century set the stage for modern life with developments such as the el…
Adventures in Silence
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Herbert W. Collingwood
What is it like inside the life of a person who cannot hear, whose reality is silence? In eloquent, sensitive style, Herbert Collingwood ad…