Health & Fitness
The Privilege of Pain
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Caroline Kane Mills Everett
We have seen that as mankind rises in the scale of civilization the body becomes increasingly less important. Nevertheless, I wish it to be …
The Prospective Mother
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J. Morris Slemons
A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy. This book, written for women who have no special knowledge of medicine, aims to answer the questions …
Sleeping Sickness
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Fleming Mant Sandwith
In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children…
Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual
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F. Matthias Alexander
F. Matthias Alexander was an Australian actor, author and educator, who is best known as the inventor of Alexander Technique, a method for &…
Pleasure Cycling
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Henry Clyde
"In this little book, the writer, looking back to his own days of inexperience in cycling, has endeavored to furnish some useful inform…
Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza October, 1918
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Francis Edward Tourscher
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. …
The City That Was
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Stephen Smith
This 1911 history of the public health revolution that transformed New York City in the nineteenth century is also about every city and town…
How to Eat: A Cure for "Nerves"
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Thomas Clark Hinkle
A regime on how to keep a healthy mind in a healthy body, consisting of a yogic way of eating, fresh air and light exercise. - Summary by Ra…
Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer
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Joseph Rogers
Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…
Music in Medicine
Read by James R. Hedrick
Sidney Licht
In spite of a spirited rebirth of the movement towards the establishment of a system of healing based on music, there are many valuable uses…
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…
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
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Florence Hartley
A COMPLETE HAND BOOK FOR THE USE OF THE LADY IN POLITE SOCIETY. CONTAINING FULL DIRECTIONS FOR CORRECT MANNERS, DRESS, DEPORTMENT, AND CONVE…
The Breath of Life
Read by Martha Heaton
George Catlin
George Catlin was an American artist who lived among the Plains Indians, during the 1830s, capturing their way of life in his art. During hi…
What to Eat and When
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Susanna Cocroft
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…
The New Science of Controlled Breathing, Vol. 1 and 2
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Edward Lankow
Instructions on the health benefits of consciously controlled breathing, by famous opera singer, Edward Lankow.
Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks
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May Farinholt Jones
"The child's mind dwells constantly in the realm of imagination; dry facts are too prosaic to enter this realm. The "Land of Story…
Tea and the Effects of Tea Drinking
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William Scott Tebb
William Scott Tebb gives a history of tea through 1903. He describes the origin, tea plant, harvesting, distribution, popularity and the mak…