Health & Fitness

Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza

by Francis Edward Tourscher Read by David Wales 4.6
In 1918 over 2,000 Roman Catholic nuns left their convents in the Philadelphia area to nurse the sick and dying of the influenza epidemic. …

A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion

by Richard Mead Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
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…

How to Care for the Insane

by William D. Granger Read by Ann Boulais 4.2
How to Care for the Insane by William D. Granger is a historical manual that explores the principles of caregiving for individuals with ment…

Little Masterpieces of Science

by George Iles Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
One of a series of books, "Little Masterpieces in Science" edited by George Iles, Health and Healing is a collection of articles w…

Infection and Immunity

by George M. Sternberg Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.8
Infection and Immunity with Special Reference to the Prevention of Infectious Diseases presents a subject that is as relevant today as it wa…

Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks

by May Farinholt Jones Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
"The child's mind dwells constantly in the realm of imagination; dry facts are too prosaic to enter this realm. The "Land of Story…

MIT7.013S05

by MIT OpenCourseWare
The MIT Biology Department core courses, 7.012, 7.013, and 7.014, all cover the same core material, which includes the fundamental principle…

No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet

by Rupert H. Wheldon Read by Ben Adams 4.4
>Though little is known about its author, this is considered the first vegan cookbook ever written. At the time of its composition, the V…

The New Science of Controlled Breathing

by Edward Lankow Read by Martha Heaton 4.3
Instructions on the health benefits of consciously controlled breathing, by famous opera singer, Edward Lankow.

The Natural History of Chocolate

by D. De Quelus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Natural History of Chocolate being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Exc…

What to Eat and When

by Susanna Cocroft Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
What is the purpose of food? How can it be utilized best to maintain health, aid recovery from illness and raise robust children, while bein…

Studies in the Psychology of Sex

by Havelock Ellis Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Volume 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and PainIn the study of Love and Pain I have discussed the sources of those aberrations which…

The Pivot of Civilization

by Margaret Sanger Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Margaret Sanger's most important and well known work, Sanger argues through her background in medicine the relation between disease and suff…

Adventures in Silence

by Herbert W. Collingwood Read by LibriVox Volunteers
What is it like inside the life of a person who cannot hear, whose reality is silence? In eloquent, sensitive style, Herbert Collingwood ad…

Food Guide for War Service at Home

by Katherine Blunt Read by Maria Kasper 4.3
"The long war has brought hunger to Europe; some of her peoples stand constantly face to face with starvation. To meet all this great f…

Sleeping Sickness

by Fleming Mant Sandwith Read by Pamela Nagami 3.2
In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children…

The Mesmeric Guide

by S. D. Saunders Read by Jordan Watts 4
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…

Nerves and Common Sense

by Annie Payson Call Read by Scientila Duddempudi 5
This is a collection of 30 articles on mental health, stress reducing and general advice on how to deal with everday problems at work or at …

Use Of The Dead To The Living

by Thomas Southwood Smith Read by David Wales 4.1
In 1827 Thomas Southwood-Smith published The Use of the Dead to the Living, a pamphlet which argued that the current system of burial in the…

Religion and Health

by James Joseph Walsh Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
In the introductory chapter and the one following we find the strong presentation of his thesis on the everlasting reality of religion. The …

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