Health & Fitness
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What to Eat and When
What is the purpose of food? How can it be utilized best to maintain health, aid recovery from illness and raise robust children, while bein…
The Prospective Mother
A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy. This book, written for women who have no special knowledge of medicine, aims to answer the questions …
The Mesmeric Guide
Aimed at "those who judge of a Science by its practical utility and think that one minute spent in applying it to the benefit of mankin…
Nerves and Common Sense
This is a collection of 30 articles on mental health, stress reducing and general advice on how to deal with everday problems at work or at …
Adventures in Silence
What is it like inside the life of a person who cannot hear, whose reality is silence? In eloquent, sensitive style, Herbert Collingwood ad…
The Uses of Water in Health and Disease
A practical guide in the use of hydrotherapy for the treatment of disease and the promotion of health. - Summary by Brian Wilson
The Christian Nurse and Her Mission in the Sick Room
François-Xavier Gautrelet was a French Jesuit priest whose legacy survives as being the inspiration and originator of the Apostleshi…
Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants
When the price of Ginseng advanced some years ago hundreds engaged in the business who knew little or nothing of farming, plant raising and …
Brain and Personality
One of the earlier works on brain science, relating what was then known or conjectured about the connection between the physical brain and t…
Obesity and Diabetes
Obesity and diabetes are increasingly a burden in modern populations, and whilst the contributions of our lifestyles are well-known, other a…
Pleasure Cycling
"In this little book, the writer, looking back to his own days of inexperience in cycling, has endeavored to furnish some useful inform…
The Mystery of Pain
This book is addressed to the sorrowful, ... to whom their own or others' pain is a daily burden, upon whose hearts it weighs with an intole…
The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song
From the Preface: "The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution "On th…
Tea and the Effects of Tea Drinking
William Scott Tebb gives a history of tea through 1903. He describes the origin, tea plant, harvesting, distribution, popularity and the mak…
The People's Idea of God
In The People's Idea of God, Mary Baker Eddy explores the profound relationship between humanity's understanding of the divine and its impac…
Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care
Video lectures of course instructors from Spring 2011 offering of HST.184/HST.S14.
Instructor(s): Leo Anthony Celi, Peter Szolovits, Hamish…
Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life
Lewis Cornaro, also called Alvise or Luigi, was an Italian nobleman who lived during the 15th and 16th centuries. Discourses on a Sober and …
Health and Fitness
This is the seventeenth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes o…
1000 Things Worth Knowing
Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that…
How to Care for the Insane
How to Care for the Insane by William D. Granger is a historical manual that explores the principles of caregiving for individuals with ment…