Medical Books

An Authentick Account of the Measures and Precautions Used at Venice

Anonymous

The Transporting Goods to the Lazaretti has been mentioned, the same is to be understood of Persons, who are there with their Things to perform the Quarantine, and prove their being in Health under th..

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

Elizabeth Blackwell

The idea taking shape.—When I returned from the Kentucky engagement the family had removed to the pleasant suburb of Walnut Hills, where the well-known Lane Theological Seminary, under the direction o..

Observation on the Use and Abuse of Mercury, and on the Precautions Necessary in its Employment

A. Philips Wilson

For many years after its introduction into practice, it was confined to a few diseases. At length it occurred to physicians, that a remedy, which in these proved so efficacious, might produce similar ..

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 ..

Observations on the Oleum Jecoris Aselli, or Cod-liver

John Savory

The introduction of a new therapeutical agent into general practice cannot fail to interest the medical profession and the public, and, profiting by the experience attained in a consideration of the m..

A Briefe Discovrse of a Disease called the Suffocation of the Mother

Edward Iorden

    A Briefe Discovrse of a Disease called the Suffocation of the Mother. One of their signes is Insensibilitie, when they doe not feele, being pricked with a pin, or burnt wi..

The Minor Horrors of War

A. E. SHIPLEY

The contents of this little book hardly justify its title. There are whole ranges of ‘Minor Horrors of War’ left untouched in the following chapters. We are shy of mentioning these organisms in t..

The Dog's Medical Dictionary

Alfred Joseph Sewell

Cocaine is equal in its effects to chloroform in many operations where the parts to be removed are not very deep-seated; besides, its use is much more economical, as not only is the drug itself of les..