Health Books

The Four Epochs of Woman's Life

Anna M. Galbraith

THE word education is here used in its broadest sense, and is meant to include the physical, mental, intellectual, and industrial. Huxley's definition is as follows: "Education is the instruction of t..

As a Matter of Course

Annie Payson Call

THE aim of this book is to assist towards the removal of nervous irritants, which are not only the cause of much physical disease, but materially interfere with the best possibilities of usefulness an..

Power Through Repose

Annie Payson Call

When the body is perfectly adjusted, perfectly supplied with force, perfectly free and works with the greatest economy of expenditure, it is fitted to be a perfect instrument alike of impression, expe..

Plague and pestilence in literature and art

Raymond Crawfurd

This volume represents substantially the FitzPatrick Lectures which I had the privilege of delivering at the Royal College of Physicians in 1912. I have turned my attention, as far as practicable, onl..

A Book of Medical Discourses, in Two Parts

Rebecca Lee Crumpler

In dealing with subjects that bring to mind thousands of premature mortalities, as, for instance, those from cholera infantum or pneumonia, I deem it expedient to speak only of what I know and to whic..

The Physical Training of Children

Pye Henry Chavasse

The arrangement of the book is in the form of questions and answers. This is an excellent idea, the long experience of the author, as a physician, enabling him to suggest many important questions that..

Good Health and How We Won It

Upton Sinclair

The new ideas of living which are the subject of this book have proceeded from investigation of the human body with the high-power microscope. The discoveries made, which have to do, not so much with ..

Overweight and Underweight

Anonymous

Desirable weight is a very individual thing. It may be described as the weight at which a person both looks and feels his best. Height, bone structure, and muscular development must all be taken into ..