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.

• A Book About Doctors John Cordy Jeaffreson
• A History of Dentistry Vincenzo Guerini
• A Yankee Doctor in Paradise S. M. Lambert
• Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine Martha Meir Allen
• An Account of the Foxglove William Withering
• An Essay on the Shaking Palsy James Parkinson
• Anatomy and Embalming Albert Nunnamaker & Charles Dhonau
• Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould & Walter L. Pyle
• Aristotle’s Masterpiece Pseudo-Aristotle
• Bloodletting Instruments Audrey Davis & Toby Appel
• Curiosities of Medical Experience J. G. Millingen
• Dr. Elsie Inglis Lady Frances Balfour
• Epidemics Resulting from Wars Friedrich Prinzing
• Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses Florence Nightingale
• Florence Nightingale: A Biography Annie Matheson
• Keeping Fit All the Way Walter Camp
• Makers of Modern Medicine James J. Walsh
• Medical Essays Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Medical Symbolism Thomas S. Sozinskey
• Medical Thoughts of Shakespeare Benjamin Rush Field
• Medicine in the Middle Ages Edmond Dupouy
• Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas P. Hughes
• Napoleon’s Campaign in Russia: Medico-Historical Achilles Rose
• Notes on Nursing Florence Nightingale
• Nursing as Caring Anne Boykin & Savina Schoenhofer
• Old English Patent Medicines in America George Griffenhagen & James Harvey Young
• Old-Time Makers of Medicine James J. Walsh
• On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Albert Schweitzer
• Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented William Tebb & Edward Perry Vollum
• Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson
• Superstition in Medicine Hugo Magnus
• Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times John Stewart Milne
• The Annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London Sidney Young
• The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Manhattan Engineer District
• The Cremation of the Dead Hugo Erichsen
• The Doctor’s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors Bernard Shaw
• The Epidemics of the Middle Ages J. F. C. Hecker
• The Evolution of Modern Medicine Sir William Osler
• The Life of Florence Nightingale Sarah A. Tooley
• The Nutrition of Man Russell H. Chittenden
• The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
• The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art Edward Berdoe
• The Sexual Life of Woman E. Heinrich Kisch
• The Turkish Bath Robert Owen Allsop
• Through These Eyes Lauren Ann Isaacson
• Vegetable Diet William A. Alcott
• Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Wesley Mills