Medical

The Bubonic Plague

by Rai Bahadur A. Mitra Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Dr. Rai Bahadur A. Mitra who was the Chief Medical Officer in Kashmir presents a short treatise on the bubonic plague. The book ranges from …

Radioisotopes in Medicine

by Earl W. Phelan Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.8
Radioisotopes in Medicine is an educational booklet published in 1966 as part of the Understanding the Atom series by the United States Atom…

A Surgeon In Arms

by Robert James Manion Read by David Wales 4.1
Robert James Manion (1881-1943) was a Canadian doctor who volunteered in the Canadian medical corps during World War I. This book is his me…

Use Of The Dead To The Living

by Thomas Southwood Smith Read by David Wales 4.1
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…

The Evolution of Modern Medicine

by Sir William Osler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This is the manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in 1913…

Aequanimitas

by Sir William Osler Read by Luke Sartor 3.5
This book is a compilation of twenty-two addresses given by Sir William Osler in various settings. He spoke on the philosophical and moral f…

On chronic alcoholic intoxication

by William Marcet Read by Curt Walton 4.2
Physician William Marcet treated numerous cases of acute alcoholism (delirium tremens) and chronic alcoholism. He suggests gastrointestinal …

The Medicine-Men Of The Apache

by John Gregory Bourke Read by David Wales 4.5
“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 …

Some Famous Women

by Louise Creighton Read by Pamela Nagami 4.9
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…

Sleeping Sickness

by Fleming Mant Sandwith Read by Pamela Nagami 3.2
In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children…

The Elephant Man

by Frederick Treves Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In 1884, Professor Treves saw Joseph Merrick (known as the "Elephant Man") in a shop across the road from the London Hospital. Bei…

Apis Mellifica

by C. W. Wolf Read by Marie Daum 5
Apis Mellifica explores the therapeutic potential of Apis Mellifica, a homeopathic remedy derived from the venom of honey bees. In this insi…

With The American Ambulance Field Service In France

by Leslie Buswell Read by David Wales 4.9
This 1915 publication collects letters written by a driver for the American ambulance service. The incidents they relate occurred before the…

Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza

by Francis Edward Tourscher Read by David Wales 4.6
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. …

Hospital Transports

by Frederick Law Olmsted Read by David Wales 4.6
In the American Civil War, The United States Sanitary Commission, staffed by volunteers, may be viewed as a precursor to The Red Cross. It s…

The Science - History of the Universe

by Francis Rolt-Wheeler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The seventh volume is on Anthropology written by the editor himself and on Medi…

An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind

by Dr. Benjamin Rush Read by TriciaG 3
Written when the United States extended only to the Mississippi River, by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, this short …

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