Medical
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
Safeguarding children: pediatric medical countermeasure research
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Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Iss and Presidential Commission For The Study Of Bioethical Iss
Safeguarding Children: Pediatric Medical Countermeasure Research is the response from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethica…
The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century
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Edward Wright Byrn
The 1800s saw a meteoric rise in modern technology in many areas. The century set the stage for modern life with developments such as the el…