Health & Fitness - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
The Mystery of Pain - James Hinton
The Mystery of Pain - James Hinton
- Author: James Hinton
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Self-Help / Christianity - Other
This book is addressed to the sorrowful, ... to whom their own or others' pain is a daily burden, upon whose hearts it weighs with an intolerable anguish. I seek to speak to these ; not as a teacher, but as a fellow. Sharing their feeling, and...
A Guide to Health - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
A Guide to Health - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Author: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Medical / Self-Help
Mahatma Gandhi, known today as a fascinating political leader and pacifist, also considered himself "something of an authority on matters of Health and Disease as well. Very few of us perhaps are aware that he is the author of quite an original...
Pleasure Cycling - Henry Clyde
Pleasure Cycling - Henry Clyde
- Author: Henry Clyde
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Sports & Recreation
"In this little book, the writer, looking back to his own days of inexperience in cycling, has endeavored to furnish some useful information and advice to those who intend joining the army of wheelmen, or who, in their first season on the road, are...
Use Of The Dead To The Living - Thomas Southwood Smith
Use Of The Dead To The Living - Thomas Southwood Smith
- Author: Thomas Southwood Smith
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Law / Medical
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 United Kingdom was a wasteful use of bodies that could otherwise be used for dissection by the medical...
Private Sex Advice to Women - R. B. Armitage
Private Sex Advice to Women - R. B. Armitage
- Author: R. B. Armitage
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Health & Fitness
In this book the writer thereof seeks to convey to women—particularly to young wives and women expecting to be married—certain important facts of knowledge, certain necessary information, which all such women should possess, but which few are given...
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes - Rupert H. WHELDON
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes - Rupert H. WHELDON
- Author: Rupert H. WHELDON
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Cooking
Though little is known about its author, this is considered the first vegan cookbook ever written. At the time of its composition, the Vegetarian Society and other advocates of vegetarian diets were engaged in a debate about the inclusion of dairy...
The Fun of Getting Thin - Samuel G. BLYTHE
The Fun of Getting Thin - Samuel G. BLYTHE
- Author: Samuel G. BLYTHE
- Genre: Health & Fitness
In this short, amusing book, subtitled "How to Be Thin and Reduce The Waist Line," Samuel G. Blythe explains how he was able to lose, and keep off, 50 pounds, without resorting to fad diets or giving up the foods he loved. Over a hundred years...
The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 2 - Robert BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 2 - Robert BURTON
- Author: Robert BURTON
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Psychology
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia (which...
The Silence: What It Is, How To Use It - David Van BUSH
The Silence: What It Is, How To Use It - David Van BUSH
- Author: David Van BUSH
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Psychology / Self-Help
Wrong thinking produces inharmony in our body, which in turn produces sickness. Our bodies sometimes are instantly re-harmonized while in the Silence. In the Silence our minds become passive, open, free and loving, at which time the Infinite Master...
The Privilege of Pain - Caroline Kane Mills EVERETT
The Privilege of Pain - Caroline Kane Mills EVERETT
- Author: Caroline Kane Mills EVERETT
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Philosophy
We have seen that as mankind rises in the scale of civilization the body becomes increasingly less important. Nevertheless, I wish it to be clearly understood, that I do not maintain that it is preferable to be ill than well, but only that each...
The Journal of a Disappointed Man - W. N. P. BARBELLION
The Journal of a Disappointed Man - W. N. P. BARBELLION
- Author: W. N. P. BARBELLION
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Health & Fitness
The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to his early death from complications stemming from multiple sclerosis. The diary combines beautiful, lyrical passages concerning the natural world...
A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used to Prevent It - Richard MEAD
A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used to Prevent It - Richard MEAD
- Author: Richard MEAD
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Life Sciences
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 understanding of transmittable diseases. - Summary by afutterer...
Quit Your Worrying! - George Wharton JAMES
Quit Your Worrying! - George Wharton JAMES
- Author: George Wharton JAMES
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Christianity - Other
"People will worry, they do worry. What they want to know and need to learn is how to quit worrying. This I have attempted herein to show, with the full knowledge, however, that no one person's recipe can infallibly be used by any other person—so...
The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 1 - Robert BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 1 - Robert BURTON
- Author: Robert BURTON
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Psychology
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia (which...
The City That Was - Stephen SMITH
The City That Was - Stephen SMITH
- Author: Stephen SMITH
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Modern (19th C)
This 1911 history of the public health revolution that transformed New York City in the nineteenth century is also about every city and town of the world and the sanitary challenges that each encountered. Stephen Smith (1823-1922) was an American...
The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 3 - Robert BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 3 - Robert BURTON
- Author: Robert BURTON
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Psychology
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia (which...
Sleeping Sickness - Fleming Mant SANDWITH
Sleeping Sickness - Fleming Mant SANDWITH
- Author: Fleming Mant SANDWITH
- Genre: Animals / Health & Fitness / History
In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children and a hazard to tourists in East African game parks.The protozoan parasite is transmitted by the tsetse fly,...
The Natural History of Chocolate - D. DE QUELUS
The Natural History of Chocolate - D. DE QUELUS
- Author: D. DE QUELUS
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Medical / Nature
The Natural History of Chocolate being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Excellent Properties, and Medicinal Virtues of its Fruit. Wherein the Errors of those who have wrote upon this...
Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual - F. Matthias Alexander
Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual - F. Matthias Alexander
- Author: F. Matthias Alexander
- Genre: Health & Fitness
F. Matthias Alexander was an Australian actor, author and educator, who is best known as the inventor of Alexander Technique, a method for "unlearning" acquired habits of movement and posture that are harmful or suboptimal, and allowing natural,...
Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks - May Farinholt Jones
Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks - May Farinholt Jones
- Author: May Farinholt Jones
- Genre: Science / Health & Fitness
"The child's mind dwells constantly in the realm of imagination; dry facts are too prosaic to enter this realm. The "Land of Story Books" is the most fascinating of all lands, and therefore the Author has endeavored to weave hygienic facts into...
Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza October, 1918 - Francis Edward Tourscher
Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza October, 1918 - Francis Edward Tourscher
- Author: Francis Edward Tourscher
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Medical / Modern (20th C)
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. Twenty-three of the sisters died because of their ministrations. This is an account of their heroic work...
Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer - Joseph Rogers
Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer - Joseph Rogers
- Author: Joseph Rogers
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Medical / Memoirs
Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensaries and separate sick wards, with proper staffs of medical attendants and nurses, was due to the efforts of...