Health & Fitness
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The Breath of Life
George Catlin was an American artist who lived among the Plains Indians, during the 1830s, capturing their way of life in his art. During hi…
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 …
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…
Music in Medicine
In spite of a spirited rebirth of the movement towards the establishment of a system of healing based on music, there are many valuable uses…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks
"The child's mind dwells constantly in the realm of imagination; dry facts are too prosaic to enter this realm. The "Land of Story…
The New Science of Controlled Breathing
Instructions on the health benefits of consciously controlled breathing, by famous opera singer, Edward Lankow.
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…
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…
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…
Über die Dummheit
In seinem Werk aus dem Jahr 1909 behandelt der Autor umfassend das Phänomen der menschlichen Dummheit - wohlgemerkt zu einer Zeit, in d…
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 …