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Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

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Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Advisory Committee On Human Radiation Experiments


Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and ra…

Malaria in Greek History

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William Henry Samuel Jones


This book is an attempt to correct and develop the theory proposed tentatively in the little work Malaria. Put briefly, this theory is as fo…

History of the Johnstown Flood

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Willis Fletcher Johnson


An account of the Johnstown Flood, the most devastating loss of civilian life in the United States prior to the terrorist attacks of Septemb…

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

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Elizabeth Blackwell


A fascinating account of the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. She writes of her struggles in being accepted to …

Microbe Hunters

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Paul De Kruif


Microbe Hunters provides dramatized accounts of eleven early pioneers of microbiology and their important discoveries. Beginning in 1650 wit…

An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae

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Edward Jenner


This collection of three publications details Edward Jenner's investigations into the connection between smallpox and coxpox, and the creati…

Post Mortem: Essays, Historical And Medical

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Charles MacLaurin and Charles Maclaurin


This 1922 collection of extensive essays comprises well written biographies of a few famous folk. The life narratives include analyses of me…

On Famine Fever and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus

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Rudolf Virchow


Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), professor of medicine and pathology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, published more than 2000 papers an…

An Essay of the Shaking Palsy

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James Parkinson


This publication is said to be the first to present a systematic view of what was later named Parkinson's disease. Six case studies are desc…

Health, Disease, and Everything in Between

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Various


This collection is a mix of poems from several authors, all of which talk about health and disease from both the patient and the doctor's pe…

Safeguarding children: pediatric medical countermeasure research

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Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Iss and Presidential Commission For The Study Of Bioethical Iss


Safeguarding Children: Pediatric Medical Countermeasure Research is the response from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethica…

An Inaugural Dissertation on Pulmonary Consumption

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Edward Delafield


At a time when diseases termed "consumption" were among the leading cause of death in the county, physicians such as Edward Delafi…

The Honour of the Gout

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Philander Misaurus


This droll and 'enflammatory' pamphelet doth be a grondebreaking worke of musing upon a great aflicktion of Man, upon the better nature of t…

01 - Neurology; Structure of the Nervous System, part 1

In Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 4 (Gray's Anatomy)

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Henry Gray


Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded th…

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