Health & Fitness

No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet

by Rupert H. Wheldon Read by Ben Adams 4.3
>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

by Joseph Rogers Read by David Wales 4.8
Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…

Our Knowledge Box

by George Blackie Read by Bill Boerst 4.6
This practical guide to solving all sorts of problems includes secrets and discoveries covering the Liquor Trade, Druggists' Aids, Manufactu…

Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks

by May Farinholt Jones Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
"The child's mind dwells constantly in the realm of imagination; dry facts are too prosaic to enter this realm. The "Land of Story…

Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza

by Francis Edward Tourscher Read by David Wales 4.6
In 1918 over 2,000 Roman Catholic nuns left their convents in the Philadelphia area to nurse the sick and dying of the influenza epidemic. …

The New Science of Controlled Breathing

by Edward Lankow Read by Martha Heaton 4.3
Instructions on the health benefits of consciously controlled breathing, by famous opera singer, Edward Lankow.

Food Guide for War Service at Home

by Katherine Blunt Read by Maria Kasper 4.3
"The long war has brought hunger to Europe; some of her peoples stand constantly face to face with starvation. To meet all this great f…

The Outline of Science

by J. Arthur Thomson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…

Apis Mellifica

by C. W. Wolf Read by Marie Daum 5
Apis Mellifica explores the therapeutic potential of Apis Mellifica, a homeopathic remedy derived from the venom of honey bees. In this insi…

The Pivot of Civilization

by Margaret Sanger Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Margaret Sanger's most important and well known work, Sanger argues through her background in medicine the relation between disease and suff…

Sleeping Sickness

by Fleming Mant Sandwith Read by Pamela Nagami 3.2
In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children…

Little Masterpieces of Science

by George Iles Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
One of a series of books, "Little Masterpieces in Science" edited by George Iles, Health and Healing is a collection of articles w…

The Natural History of Chocolate

by D. De Quelus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Natural History of Chocolate being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Exc…

What to Eat and When

by Susanna Cocroft Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
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…

Use Of The Dead To The Living

by Thomas Southwood Smith Read by David Wales 4.1
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…

A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion

by Richard Mead Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
This is a work written about the plague in France and how to prevent its spread. It is considered an important historical work for the unde…

MIT7.013S05

by MIT OpenCourseWare
The MIT Biology Department core courses, 7.012, 7.013, and 7.014, all cover the same core material, which includes the fundamental principle…

Adventures in Silence

by Herbert W. Collingwood Read by LibriVox Volunteers
What is it like inside the life of a person who cannot hear, whose reality is silence? In eloquent, sensitive style, Herbert Collingwood ad…

The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song

by Frederick Walker Mott Read by Marya James
From the Preface: "The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution "On th…

The Mesmeric Guide

by S. D. Saunders Read by Jordan Watts 4
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…

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