Health & Fitness
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The Natural History of Chocolate
The Natural History of Chocolate being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Exc…
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet
>Though little is known about its author, this is considered the first vegan cookbook ever written. At the time of its composition, the V…
Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer
Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…
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
MIT7.013S05
The MIT Biology Department core courses, 7.012, 7.013, and 7.014, all cover the same core material, which includes the fundamental principle…
The New Science of Controlled Breathing
Instructions on the health benefits of consciously controlled breathing, by famous opera singer, Edward Lankow.
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 Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…
The Pivot of Civilization
Margaret Sanger's most important and well known work, Sanger argues through her background in medicine the relation between disease and suff…
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…
Use Of The Dead To The Living
In 1827 Thomas Southwood-Smith published The Use of the Dead to the Living, a pamphlet which argued that the current system of burial in the…
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…
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 …
The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…
No Doorway Wide Enough
It was just about three weeks after his 45th birthday in 2000 when Bill Schmalfeldt was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In 2007 while wo…
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…
The City That Was
This 1911 history of the public health revolution that transformed New York City in the nineteenth century is also about every city and town…
Sex
Henry Stanton’s 1922 book Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English is intended as a frank (although conservative and moralistic) gu…
Food-Free at Last
Food is a drug. Break the shackles of addiction and learn to eat air! In this detailed guide, Dr. Robert Jones, MD, PhD, DDS, ODD gives you …
Nuts in Family Meals
Nuts in Family Meals: A Guide for Consumers by US Department of Agriculture is a guidebook for anyone searching for unique ways to use nuts …