Health & Fitness
- Holistic Health and Well-Being
- Exploring Health Through Science
- Explorations in Health and Wellness
- Pioneers in Health and Healing
Health and Fitness
This is the seventeenth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes o…
Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer
Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…
How to Care for the Insane
How to Care for the Insane by William D. Granger is a historical manual that explores the principles of caregiving for individuals with ment…
Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks
"The child's mind dwells constantly in the realm of imagination; dry facts are too prosaic to enter this realm. The "Land of Story…
Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza
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. …
MIT7.013S05
The MIT Biology Department core courses, 7.012, 7.013, and 7.014, all cover the same core material, which includes the fundamental principle…
Little Masterpieces of Science
One of a series of books, "Little Masterpieces in Science" edited by George Iles, Health and Healing is a collection of articles w…
The New Science of Controlled Breathing
Instructions on the health benefits of consciously controlled breathing, by famous opera singer, Edward Lankow.
The Outline of Science
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…
The Natural History of Chocolate
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
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…
Sleeping Sickness
In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children…
Use Of The Dead To The Living
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…
The Pivot of Civilization
Margaret Sanger's most important and well known work, Sanger argues through her background in medicine the relation between disease and suff…
Food Guide for War Service at Home
"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…
A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion
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…
Adventures in Silence
What is it like inside the life of a person who cannot hear, whose reality is silence? In eloquent, sensitive style, Herbert Collingwood ad…
Apis Mellifica
Apis Mellifica explores the therapeutic potential of Apis Mellifica, a homeopathic remedy derived from the venom of honey bees. In this insi…
The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song
From the Preface: "The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution "On th…
The Mesmeric Guide
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…