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Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments - Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments - Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
- Author: Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
- Genre: Medical / Philosophy / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body. Most of these tests were performed, funded, or supervised by the...
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae - Edward Jenner
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae - Edward Jenner
- Author: Edward Jenner
- Genre: Medical
This collection of three publications details Edward Jenner's investigations into the connection between smallpox and coxpox, and the creation of the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. - Summary by Jordan...
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 4 (Gray's Anatomy) - Henry Gray
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 4 (Gray's Anatomy) - Henry Gray
- Author: Henry Gray
- Genre: Medical
Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded through many successive editions. This recording is of the public-domain 1918 US edition (some information may...
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...
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...
On chronic alcoholic intoxication : with an inquiry into the influence of the abuse of alcohol as a predisposing cause of disease - William Marcet
On chronic alcoholic intoxication : with an inquiry into the influence of the abuse of alcohol as a predisposing cause of disease - William Marcet
- Author: William Marcet
- Genre: Medical / Psychology
Physician William Marcet treated numerous cases of acute alcoholism (delirium tremens) and chronic alcoholism. He suggests gastrointestinal disease, gout and rheumatism are diseases associated with chronic alcoholism and might either be the cause or...
Observations of an Orderly - Ward Muir
Observations of an Orderly - Ward Muir
- Author: Ward Muir
- Genre: War & Military / Medical
Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eyes of the orderly we get to see the processes that kept the wards running, and relive some tales from within...
Old-Time Makers of Medicine - James Joseph Walsh
Old-Time Makers of Medicine - James Joseph Walsh
- Author: James Joseph Walsh
- Genre: History / Medical
Dr. Walsh's Old-Time Makers of Medicine chronicles the history and development of modern medicine from ancient times up to the discovery of America. Throughout this historical guide, Dr. Walsh shows numerous examples of practices thought to be...
Some Famous Women - Louise Creighton
Some Famous Women - Louise Creighton
- Author: Louise Creighton
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Medical
Louise Creighton (1850-1936) was a British author and women's rights activist. The wife of the Anglican bishop of London, she was the mother of seven children. In this short book, Creighton gives us chapters on such well-known women as Joan of Arc,...
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 1 (Gray's Anatomy) - Henry Gray
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 1 (Gray's Anatomy) - Henry Gray
- Author: Henry Gray
- Genre: Medical
Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded through many successive editions. This recording is of the public-domain 1918 US edition (some information may...
Little Masterpieces of Science - Health and Healing - George ILES
Little Masterpieces of Science - Health and Healing - George ILES
- Author: George ILES
- Genre: Medical
One of a series of books, "Little Masterpieces in Science" edited by George Iles, Health and Healing is a collection of articles written by prominent physicians and scientists describing key advances in medicine through the end of the 19th century....
Aequanimitas and Other Addresses - Sir William OSLER
Aequanimitas and Other Addresses - Sir William OSLER
- Author: Sir William OSLER
- Genre: Medical / Contemporary
This book is a compilation of twenty-two addresses given by Sir William Osler in various settings. He spoke on the philosophical and moral foundations of medical science, giving instruction to the student the teacher, the physician and the nurse. In...
London (Ancient And Modern) From The Sanitary And Medical Point Of View - George Vivian POORE
London (Ancient And Modern) From The Sanitary And Medical Point Of View - George Vivian POORE
- Author: George Vivian POORE
- Genre: Medical / Technology & Engineering
This little book is an expansion of two addresses delivered in January, 1889. One deals with sanitary issues in London. The other deals with medical issues, mainly through the lives and careers of physicians. Though ancients are included, the main...
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 5 (Gray's Anatomy) - Henry Gray
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 5 (Gray's Anatomy) - Henry Gray
- Author: Henry Gray
- Genre: Medical
Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded through many successive editions. This recording is of the public-domain 1918 US edition (some information may...
An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays - Sir William OSLER
An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays - Sir William OSLER
- Author: Sir William OSLER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Medical
Here are thirteen biographical sketches of physicians penned by one of the founders of modern medicine, William Osler, published in 1908. "Sir William Osler, one of the best-loved and most influential teachers of his time, was born in Canada in...
Louis Pasteur - Albert KEIM
Louis Pasteur - Albert KEIM
- Author: Albert KEIM
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Medical / Modern (19th C)
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) famously said, "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." Pasteur brought to the study of chemistry, microbiology, and applied immunology, a mind open, innovative, and insightful. Born of peasant...
Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen - Mary Edwards WALKER
Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen - Mary Edwards WALKER
- Author: Mary Edwards WALKER
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Medical
Mary Edwards Walker was a physician and surgeon who served in the Civil War. An abolitionist, prohibitionist, and cross-dressing leader of the women's dress reform movement, she published this lively sex manual in 1878. It is a curious blend of...
The Elements of Anatomy and Physiology - William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Anatomy and Physiology - William Ruschenberger
- Author: William Ruschenberger
- Genre: Medical / Life Sciences
The Elements of Anatomy and Physiology is one in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1852 presents an introduction to the workings of the human body. The...
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915 - Anonymous
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Medical / Modern (20th C)
The title is, I think, self explanatory. The nurse in question went out to France at the beginning of the war and remained there until May 1915 after the second battle of Ypres when she went back to a Base Hospital and the diary ceases. Although...
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery - Joseph LISTER
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery - Joseph LISTER
- Author: Joseph LISTER
- Genre: Medical
Joseph Lister was born near London in 1827. He studied medicine at the University of London and pursued a career as a surgeon in Scotland. He became professor of Surgery in Glasgow and later (1877) at Kings College Hospital, in London. Lister’s...
Lectures on Tropical Diseases - Patrick MANSON
Lectures on Tropical Diseases - Patrick MANSON
- Author: Patrick MANSON
- Genre: Medical
This short volume consists of the ten lectures which Sir Patrick Manson, medical adviser to the Colonial Office, delivered in San Francisco in 1905. Valuable to this day are his clinical descriptions: the three foot Guinea worm, still treated by...
Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty - Stephen COLERIDGE
Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty - Stephen COLERIDGE
- Author: Stephen COLERIDGE
- Genre: Animals / Medical / Modern (19th C)
Vivisection is a pejorative term used by opponents of the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of physiological or pathological research. While opposition to the use of living animals for experimentation is most often...
Radioisotopes in Medicine - Earl W. PHELAN
Radioisotopes in Medicine - Earl W. PHELAN
- Author: Earl W. PHELAN
- Genre: Medical / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics / Life Sciences
Radioisotopes in Medicine is an educational booklet published in 1966 as part of the Understanding the Atom series by the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Written in clear language for the general public, the booklet covers the diagnostic and...
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology - W. G. Aitchison ROBERTSON
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology - W. G. Aitchison ROBERTSON
- Author: W. G. Aitchison ROBERTSON
- Genre: Medical / Science
A 1922 source-book for British criminal pathologists, this will be of particular interest to fans of popular police forensics television shows, films, and murder mysteries.(Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From The Peninsula Of Virginia In The Summer Of 1862 - Frederick Law OLMSTED
Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From The Peninsula Of Virginia In The Summer Of 1862 - Frederick Law OLMSTED
- Author: Frederick Law OLMSTED
- Genre: War & Military / Medical
In the American Civil War, The United States Sanitary Commission, staffed by volunteers, may be viewed as a precursor to The Red Cross. It supplemented the medical care of the armed services medical corps. Its doctors, nurses, administrators,...
A Surgeon In Arms - Robert James MANION
A Surgeon In Arms - Robert James MANION
- Author: Robert James MANION
- Genre: War & Military / Medical / Memoirs
Robert James Manion (1881-1943) was a Canadian doctor who volunteered in the Canadian medical corps during World War I. This book is his memoir of the war. After the war he entered politics and served in several Canadian governments. The listener...
With The American Ambulance Field Service In France; Personal Letters Of A Driver At The Front - Leslie BUSWELL
With The American Ambulance Field Service In France; Personal Letters Of A Driver At The Front - Leslie BUSWELL
- Author: Leslie BUSWELL
- Genre: War & Military / Medical
This 1915 publication collects letters written by a driver for the American ambulance service. The incidents they relate occurred before the entrance of the United States into World War I as a combatant. “These letters, according to ordinary ethics...
The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud
The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud
- Author: Sigmund Freud
- Genre: Medical
A series of lectures given in the USA by Freud in German, later translated into English - Summary by Peter Tucker...
Clinical Medicine For Nurses - Paul H. RINGER
Clinical Medicine For Nurses - Paul H. RINGER
- Author: Paul H. RINGER
- Genre: Medical
The basics of clinical medicine for nurses in WWI-era America from a series of lectures by the author, an Asheville, NC physician. - Summary by BellonaTimes...
How to Care for the Insane - William D. GRANGER
How to Care for the Insane - William D. GRANGER
- Author: William D. GRANGER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Medical / Psychology
"The writer believes that all attendants should be regularly instructed in their duties, and the highest standard of care can be reached only when this is done. He also believes that every person who is allowed to care for the insane will be greatly...
War Surgery - From Firing Line to Base - Basil HUGHES
War Surgery - From Firing Line to Base - Basil HUGHES
- Author: Basil HUGHES
- Genre: War & Military / Medical
One of the first volumes dedicated to systematized medical treatment of soldiers in modern warfare, including a chapter on specific care for airmen, by British doctors who served on the front lines of WWI. Graphic descriptions (and images in the...
Notes on Nursing - Florence NIGHTINGALE
Notes on Nursing - Florence NIGHTINGALE
- Author: Florence NIGHTINGALE
- Genre: Medical
Notes on Nursing was published in 1859 and is a fascinating view into the theories underpinning the early development of modern nursing and public health reform by "the Lady with the Lamp", Florence Nightingale. Emphasising common sense and thought...
The Elephant Man and other reminiscences - Frederick TREVES
The Elephant Man and other reminiscences - Frederick TREVES
- Author: Frederick TREVES
- Genre: Medical / Memoirs
In 1884, Professor Treves saw Joseph Merrick (known as the "Elephant Man") in a shop across the road from the London Hospital. Being also a teacher at the University, he brought Merrick to the London Hospital as a teaching case, and Merrick lived...
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...
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 3 (Gray's Anatomy) - Henry Gray
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 3 (Gray's Anatomy) - Henry Gray
- Author: Henry Gray
- Genre: Medical
Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded through many successive editions. This recording is of the public-domain 1918 US edition (some information may...
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 2 (Gray's Anatomy) - Henry Gray
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 2 (Gray's Anatomy) - Henry Gray
- Author: Henry Gray
- Genre: Medical
Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded through many successive editions. This recording is of the public-domain 1918 US edition (some information may...
An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind, with an Account of the Means of Preventing, and of the Remedies for Curing Them - Dr. Benjamin Rush
An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind, with an Account of the Means of Preventing, and of the Remedies for Curing Them - Dr. Benjamin Rush
- Author: Dr. Benjamin Rush
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Medical / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Written when the United States extended only to the Mississippi River, by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, this short work explores the physical, social, and mental effects of distilled liquors; the classes of people prone to...
The Medicine-Men Of The Apache - John Gregory Bourke
The Medicine-Men Of The Apache - John Gregory Bourke
- Author: John Gregory Bourke
- Genre: Medical / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
“Herewith I have the honor to submit a paper upon the paraphernalia of the medicine-men of the Apache and other tribes. Analogues have been pointed out, wherever possible, especially in the case of the hoddentin and the izze-kloth, which have never...
Margaret Sanger; an autobiography - Margaret SANGER
Margaret Sanger; an autobiography - Margaret SANGER
- Author: Margaret SANGER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Medical / Modern (20th C)
Margaret Sanger, an advocate for birth control rights, chronicles the story of her struggles, including her times in jail and in exile, in order to legalize birth control options for women. She details the uphill battles of not only convincing...
Infection and Immunity - George M. Sternberg
Infection and Immunity - George M. Sternberg
- Author: George M. Sternberg
- Genre: Medical / Life Sciences
Infection and Immunity with Special Reference to the Prevention of Infectious Diseases presents a subject that is as relevant today as it was in 1903. This book was written for readers without a medical background, and includes general information...