This volume, the second of a two-part biography, chronicles Florence Nightingale's life from 1861 to her death in 1910. It delves into her work beyond...
This book, written by a professional rat catcher named Ike Matthews, provides a detailed and practical guide to catching and exterminating rats. It of...
Richard Mead's *Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion* is a landmark treatise on the 18th-century understanding of plague and its spread....
This book examines the sanitary and medical conditions of London from an historical perspective. It discusses the challenges and successes of public h...
This academic thesis, written in 1918, provides a detailed and comprehensive study of the daily lives of soldiers in the Continental Army during the A...