Health & Medicine

Osler and Nightingale, Withering’s foxglove and Parkinson’s shaking palsy — the history of medicine, the people who changed it, and the diseases that changed us.

• Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine Martha Meir Allen
• Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson
• Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould & Walter L. Pyle
• An Account of the Foxglove William Withering
• A Treatise on Poisons Robert Christison
• Of Medicine Celsus
• Notes on Nursing Florence Nightingale
• The Sexual Life of Woman E. Heinrich Kisch
• The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art Edward Berdoe
• Curiosities of Medical Experience J. G. Millingen
• Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented William Tebb & Edward Perry Vollum
• Aristotle’s Masterpiece Pseudo-Aristotle
• The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation Austin O’Malley
• The Epidemics of the Middle Ages J. F. C. Hecker
• A Yankee Doctor in Paradise S. M. Lambert
• Anatomy and Embalming Albert Nunnamaker & Charles Dhonau
• Medical Essays Oliver Wendell Holmes
• A History of Dentistry Vincenzo Guerini
• Medicine in the Middle Ages Edmond Dupouy
• Nursing as Caring Anne Boykin & Savina Schoenhofer
• Epidemics Resulting from Wars Friedrich Prinzing
• A Book About Doctors John Cordy Jeaffreson
• The Evolution of Modern Medicine Sir William Osler
• The Mystery and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy C. J. S. Thompson
• Dr. Elsie Inglis Lady Frances Balfour
• The Annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London Sidney Young
• Bloodletting Instruments Audrey Davis & Toby Appel
• The Turkish Bath Robert Owen Allsop
• Old English Patent Medicines in America George Griffenhagen & James Harvey Young
• Vegetable Diet William A. Alcott
• Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times John Stewart Milne
• Keeping Fit All the Way Walter Camp
• Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses Florence Nightingale
• Through These Eyes Lauren Ann Isaacson
• Florence Nightingale: A Biography Annie Matheson
• Power Through Repose Annie Payson Call
• The Cremation of the Dead Hugo Erichsen
• Grappling with the Monster T. S. Arthur
• Old-Time Makers of Medicine James J. Walsh
• The Nutrition of Man Russell H. Chittenden
• The Life of Florence Nightingale Sarah A. Tooley
• Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Wesley Mills
• Andreas Vesalius, the Reformer of Anatomy James Moores Ball
• Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas P. Hughes
• On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Albert Schweitzer
• Superstition in Medicine Hugo Magnus
• William Harvey D’Arcy Power
• Gilbertus Anglicus Henry E. Handerson
• Religion and Health James J. Walsh
• An Essay on the Shaking Palsy James Parkinson
• Medical Symbolism Thomas S. Sozinskey
• Makers of Modern Medicine James J. Walsh
• Observations on the Diseases of Seamen Gilbert Blane
• The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Manhattan Engineer District
• Medieval Medicine James J. Walsh
• The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
• Medical Thoughts of Shakespeare Benjamin Rush Field
• The Dawn of Modern Medicine Albert H. Buck
• My Leper Friends Alice M. Hayes
• Drugs That Enslave H. H. Kane
• Daily Training E. F. Benson and Eustace Miles
• The Doctor’s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors Bernard Shaw
• The Seven Sisters of Sleep M. C. Cooke
• The Sanitary Evolution of London Henry Jephson
• The Doctor in History, Literature and Folk-Lore William Andrews
• Napoleon’s Campaign in Russia: Medico-Historical Achilles Rose
• Some Medical Aspects of Old Age Humphry Davy Rolleston
• Secret Remedies British Medical Association
• Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform H. Laing Gordon
• The Tale of a Field Hospital Frederick Treves
• Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart John Collins Warren
• What to Eat and When Susanna Cocroft
• The Apparatus Used by the Greeks and Romans in Setting Fractures John Stewart Milne
• On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics John Snow
• The Fun of Getting Thin Samuel G. Blythe
• Influenza Warren T. Vaughan
• A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries Christopher Merret
• Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders William A. Alcott
• Doctor and Patient S. Weir Mitchell
• Food Poisoning Edwin O. Jordan
• Notes on Lying-In Institutions Florence Nightingale
• Fifteen Years in Hell Luther Benson
• Drugging a Nation Samuel Merwin
• Loimologia Nathaniel Hodges
• Memoirs of John Abernethy George Macilwain
• Post Mortem Charles MacLaurin
• Health and Education Charles Kingsley
• Vikings of To-day Wilfred Grenfell
• Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life Luigi Cornaro
• Smoking and Drinking James Parton
• The Autopsy of Chang and Eng Bunker Harrison Allen
• Epidemic Respiratory Disease Eugene L. Opie
• I-em-hotep and Ancient Egyptian Medicine Richard Caton
• Why Not? Horatio Robinson Storer
• Cholera and the Water Supply John Snow