Early Medicine and Health

This CD contains 89 classic books about medicine and health, including "Gilbertus Angelicus: Medicine of the 13th Century" by Henry Handerson, "Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine" by George Gould and Walter Pyle, Cobb's "Anatomy", "Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured", " The Royal Road to Health" by Charles A. Tyrrell, "Practical Physiology" by Albert Blaisdell, "The Evolution of Modern Medicine" by William Osler, and "Notes on Nursing" by Florence Nightingale.

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Table of Contents

Early Medicine and Health

• An Account of the Foxglove and some of Its Medical Uses by William Withering, 1785
• Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society, 1856
• Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George Gould and Walter Pyle
• Appendicitis by John Tilden
• The Art of Living in Australia by Philip Muskett
• As a Matter of Course by Anne Payson Call
• At Sulva Bay by John Hargrave
• The Autobiography of a Quack and The Case of George Dedow by S. Weir Mitchell
• The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction by Winfield s. Hall, 1911
• Birth Control by Halliday Sutherland
• Care and Feeding of Children by L. Emmett Holt
• Civics and Health by William Allen
• Clara A. Swain, MD, First Medical Missionary of the Orient by Mrs. Robert Hoskins, 1912
• Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured by Charles Cluthe and Sons
• Cobb's Anatomy by Irvin S. Cobb
• De Usu Ratiocinii Mechanici in Medicina by Hermannus Boerhaave, 1703
• Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915
• Diet and Health with a Key to Caoloires by Lulu Peters
• Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton Reeks
• A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation by Rev. Orin Fowler, 1842
• A Dissertation no the Mmedical Properties and Injurious Effects of Tobacco by A. McAllister, 1830
• Doctor and Patiernt by S. Weir Mitchell
• Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia by Isaac Briggs
• An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Death by R.D. Mussey
• The Evolution of Modern Medicine by William Osler
• Fathers of Biology by Charles McRae, 1890
• Field Hospital and Flying Column by Violetta Thurstan, 1915
• First Book in Physiogy and Medicine by J.H. Kellogg, 1887
• Food Remedies by Florence Daniel
• The Four Epochs of a Woman's Life: a Study in Hygiene by Anna Glabraith
• The Freedom of Life by Anne Payson Call
• Gilbertus Angelicus: Medicine of the 13th Century by Henry Handerson, 1918
• A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson
• Health and Education by Rev. Charles Kingsley, 1874
• Health Work in the Public Schools by Leonard P. Ayres and May Ayres
• The Healthy Life, July-Dec. 1813
• Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by W.T. Fernie
• History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business
• How to Add Ten Years to Your Life and to Double Its Satisfactiosn by S.s. Curry, 1915
• How to Live by Irving Fiske
• Hygienic Physiology by Joel Steele
• An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners by Archibald Makellar, 1846
• Lameness of the Horse by J.V. Lacroix, 1916
• A Lecture on Heads by George Alexander Stevens, 1812
• Manhood Perfectly Restored
• A Manual of the Operations of Surgery, for the use of senior students, house surgeons, and junior practitioners by Joseph Bell, 1883
• The Maternal Management of Children in Health and Disease by Thomas Bull, 1840
• Measles by W.C. Rucker, 1913
• Medical Essays by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Moral Principles and Medical Practice, the Basis of Medical Jurisprudence by Charles Coppens
• Nerves and Common Sense by Anne Payson Call
• No Animal food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes by Rupert H. Wheldon
• Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale
• Observations of an Orderly by Ward Muir, 1917
• Old-Time Makers of Medicine by James Walsh
• Papers on Health by Professor Kirk
• Personal Experience of a Physician by John Ellis
• Physiologie du Gout (in French) by Brillat-Savarin, 1848
• Plain Facts for Old and Young [about sex] by J.H. Kellogg
• Power Through Response by Anne Payson Call
• Practical Physiology by Albert Blaisdell
• Preventable Diseases by woods Hutchinson, 1909
• Psychopathia Sexualis (in French) by R. Von Krafft-Ebing
• Remarks on the Subject of lactation by Edawrd Mortan, 1831
• Round the Red Lamp, Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Royal Road to Health by Charles A. Tyrrell
• Science and Morals and Other Essays by Sir Bertram C.a. Windle, 1919
• Scientific Papers in Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology (Harvard Classics Volume 38)
• Sex and Common Sense by Maude Royden
• Some Personal Recollectiosn o fDr. Janeway by James Bayard Clark, 1917
• Speaking of Operations by Irvin S. Cobb
• Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise, 1859
• Surgical Experiences in South Africa 1899-1900 by George Henry Makins
• The Talking Deaf Man by John Conrade Amman
• Theory of Circulation by Respiration by Emma Willard, 1861
• The Third Great Plague, a Discussion of Syphillis by John H. Stokes
• Tractatus de Hermaphroditis or a Treatise of Hermaphrodites, 1718
• A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons by Frederick Accun, 1820
• The Untroubled Mind by Herbert J. Hall
• The Vitamine Manual by Walter Eddy
• Valere Aude, Dare to be Healthy by Louis Dechmann
• Venereal Diseases in New Zealand, 1922
• The Veterinarian by Charles Korinek
• Voices for the Speechless by Abraham Firth
• Voyage dans l'Aures: notes d'un medecin envoye en mission chez les femmes arabes by Dorothee Chellier, 1895