Health & Fitness

The Major Symptoms of Hysteria

by Pierre Janet Read by Peter Tucker 5
In this series of lectures delivered in English by the author while visiting the USA, Janet summarises the (at the time) cutting edge perspe…

Religion and Health

by James Joseph Walsh Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
In the introductory chapter and the one following we find the strong presentation of his thesis on the everlasting reality of religion. The …

Habits that Handicap

by Charles B. Towns Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Habits that Handicap delves into the complex world of addiction, exploring the psychological and social factors that contribute to alcoholis…

Music in Medicine

by Sidney Licht Read by James R. Hedrick 4.5
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…

Health and Fitness

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is the seventeenth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes o…

The Breath of Life

by George Catlin Read by Martha Heaton 4.7
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…

1000 Things Worth Knowing

by Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that…

The Mesmeric Guide

by S. D. Saunders Read by Jordan Watts 4
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…

Nerves and Common Sense

by Annie Payson Call Read by Scientila Duddempudi 5
This is a collection of 30 articles on mental health, stress reducing and general advice on how to deal with everday problems at work or at …

Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care

by MIT OpenCourseWare 5
Video lectures of course instructors from Spring 2011 offering of HST.184/HST.S14. Instructor(s): Leo Anthony Celi, Peter Szolovits, Hamish…

Adventures in Silence

by Herbert W. Collingwood Read by LibriVox Volunteers
What is it like inside the life of a person who cannot hear, whose reality is silence? In eloquent, sensitive style, Herbert Collingwood ad…

Obesity and Diabetes

by Various 4.5
Obesity and diabetes are increasingly a burden in modern populations, and whilst the contributions of our lifestyles are well-known, other a…

How to Care for the Insane

by William D. Granger Read by Ann Boulais 4.2
How to Care for the Insane by William D. Granger is a historical manual that explores the principles of caregiving for individuals with ment…

The Prospective Mother

by J. Morris Slemons Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy. This book, written for women who have no special knowledge of medicine, aims to answer the questions …

The Christian Nurse and Her Mission in the Sick Room

by François-Xavier Gautrelet Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
François-Xavier Gautrelet was a French Jesuit priest whose legacy survives as being the inspiration and originator of the Apostleshi…

No Doorway Wide Enough

by Bill Schmalfeldt Read by Bill Schmalfeldt 4.5
It was just about three weeks after his 45th birthday in 2000 when Bill Schmalfeldt was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In 2007 while wo…

The People's Idea of God

by Mary Baker Eddy Read by n8evv 4.4
In The People's Idea of God, Mary Baker Eddy explores the profound relationship between humanity's understanding of the divine and its impac…

Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants

by Arthur Robert Harding Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
When the price of Ginseng advanced some years ago hundreds engaged in the business who knew little or nothing of farming, plant raising and …

The Outline of Science

by J. Arthur Thomson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…

The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song

by Frederick Walker Mott Read by Marya James
From the Preface: "The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution "On th…

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