Medical
Microbe Hunters
Read by Warren Kati
Paul De Kruif
Microbe Hunters provides dramatized accounts of eleven early pioneers of microbiology and their important discoveries. Beginning in 1650 wit…
Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
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Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Advisory Committee On Human Radiation Experiments
Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and ra…
History of the Johnstown Flood
Read by Tatiana Chichilla
Willis Fletcher Johnson
An account of the Johnstown Flood, the most devastating loss of civilian life in the United States prior to the terrorist attacks of Septemb…
Malaria in Greek History
Read by Leon Harvey
William Henry Samuel Jones
This book is an attempt to correct and develop the theory proposed tentatively in the little work Malaria. Put briefly, this theory is as fo…
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
Read by PhyllisV
Elizabeth Blackwell
A fascinating account of the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. She writes of her struggles in being accepted to …
Post Mortem: Essays, Historical And Medical
Read by David Wales
Charles MacLaurin and Charles Maclaurin
This 1922 collection of extensive essays comprises well written biographies of a few famous folk. The life narratives include analyses of me…
Recuerdos de mi vida
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Santiago Ramón Y Cajal
De "paciencia rayana en la obstinación para el adueñamiento de los métodos histológicos; destreza y ma&ntil…
On Famine Fever and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus
Read by Pamela Nagami
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), professor of medicine and pathology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, published more than 2000 papers an…
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
Read by Jordan Watts
Edward Jenner
This collection of three publications details Edward Jenner's investigations into the connection between smallpox and coxpox, and the creati…
An Essay of the Shaking Palsy
Read by KevinS
James Parkinson
This publication is said to be the first to present a systematic view of what was later named Parkinson's disease. Six case studies are desc…
Health, Disease, and Everything in Between
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Various
This collection is a mix of poems from several authors, all of which talk about health and disease from both the patient and the doctor's pe…
Über die Dummheit
Read by Claus Misfeldt
Leopold Loewenfeld
In seinem Werk aus dem Jahr 1909 behandelt der Autor umfassend das Phänomen der menschlichen Dummheit - wohlgemerkt zu einer Zeit, in d…
The Mesmeric Guide, for Family Use
Read by Jordan Watts
S. D. Saunders
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…
Adventures in Silence
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Herbert W. Collingwood
What is it like inside the life of a person who cannot hear, whose reality is silence? In eloquent, sensitive style, Herbert Collingwood ad…