Health & Fitness
Sleeping Sickness
Read by Pamela Nagami
Fleming Mant Sandwith
In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children…
Pleasure Cycling
Read by TriciaG
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
Read by David Wales
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. …
How to Eat: A Cure for "Nerves"
Read by Rapunzelina
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…
The City That Was
Read by David Wales
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…
Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer
Read by David Wales
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…
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 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…
The New Science of Controlled Breathing, Vol. 1 and 2
Read by Martha Heaton
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…
The Uses of Water in Health and Disease
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John Harvey Kellogg
A practical guide in the use of hydrotherapy for the treatment of disease and the promotion of health. - Summary by Brian Wilson
The Mesmeric Guide, for Family Use
Read by Jordan Watts
S. D. Saunders
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…
The Golden Rule Cook Book: Six Hundred Recipes for Meatless Dishes
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M. R. L. Sharpe
M. R. L. Sharpe, (Maud Russell Lorraine Carpenter) was Boston socialite and activist for animal rights and vegetarianism. These ethical co…
The Pivot of Civilization
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Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger's most important and well known work, Sanger argues through her background in medicine the relation between disease and suff…
Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life
Read by Ted Perkins
Luigi Cornaro
Lewis Cornaro, also called Alvise or Luigi, was an Italian nobleman who lived during the 15th and 16th centuries. Discourses on a Sober and …