Books on Topic: 'Medicine'

Dal Timgar had always wanted to be a doctor. As a Garvian and the first non-human to study medicine on Hospital Earth, he must face enormous adversity...

The Author sings the praises of Chocolate. "By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the P...

This is a classic anatomy textbook that was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since. It has been revised and expande...

Australia Felix is a novel by Henry Handel Richardson that tells the story of Richard Mahony, a Scottish doctor who emigrates to Australia during the...

This collection of sixteen short nonfiction works explores a wide range of topics, including history, politics, medicine, nature, and religion. The es...

Robert Burton's *The Anatomy of Melancholy* is a sprawling and complex work that delves into the nature of melancholy, a term encompassing a wide rang...

This book is the fifth part of Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook, which was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever si...

Henry Vizetelly, writing under the pseudonym J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, chronicles his experiences during a journey to California in the mid-19th century. In...

The book is an account of the eight-year journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish explorer who was shipwrecked in Florida in 1528. He and thre...

An interstellar doctor and his pet alien are sent to investigate a mysterious disease on a remote planet. They soon discover that the disease is not w...

This collection of five short stories by Alan E. Nourse delves into the intersection of science, medicine, and the paranormal. Nourse explores futuri...

This book explores the use of Apis Mellifica, the venom of the honey bee, as a homeopathic remedy. Dr. Wolf, a practicing physician, draws upon his ex...

This autobiography details the extraordinary life of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican-born businesswoman and nurse who traveled extensively and became a celeb...

This story is a gentle and nostalgic account of a fictional country doctor on Christmas Eve. The narrative explores the deep connection between the do...

Sir William Osler's "Aequanimitas and Other Addresses" is a collection of his speeches, revealing a profound understanding of medicine as a profession...

This book, compiled from a series of lectures delivered by Dr. Paul H. Ringer, an Asheville, North Carolina physician, offers a glimpse into the funda...

The book follows the life of Charles Alexander Eastman from his early days in the Sioux tribe to his education and assimilation into white society. It...

“Aristotle’s Masterpiece,” despite its misleading title, is a pseudo-Aristotelian work that gained popularity in England from the 17th to the 19th cen...

This collection brings together three of Sir Thomas Browne's most celebrated works: *Religio Medici*, *Hydriotaphia*, and *Letter to a Friend*. Browne...

''Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol 1'' by Edmond Halley is a collection of scientific papers presented to the Royal Society during the late 17th and early 18t...

Sir Patrick Manson, a prominent British physician, delivered ten lectures on tropical diseases in San Francisco in 1905. These lectures, later compil...

This volume, the first of two, delves into the life of Florence Nightingale, the pioneering figure in modern nursing, from her childhood to 1861. It e...

This collection of essays, penned by Sir William Osler, one of the pioneers of modern medicine, delves into the lives and contributions of prominent p...

This collection of poetry, compiled by Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw, showcases his diverse literary talent. Written over a significant period of his lif...