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Medicine & Health
4 public-domain medicine & health books, summarised. Page 1 of 1.
Those about Trench
Edwin Herbert Lewis
HOOK A surgeon’s cold, scientific worldview is tested by the loyalties of his international students as the shadow of the First World War stretches across their lives.
The medical aspects of death, and the medical aspects of the human mind
James Bower Harrison
We are all destined to reach the end of our journey, and contemplating the physical and mental transitions that lead us there is a vital, noble exercise of the mind.
Women in the factory
Adelaide Mary Anderson
This is a chronicle of the first three decades of the British Women’s Factory Inspectorate, documenting how a small, determined group of women transformed industrial safety and worker dignity from 1893 to 1921.
Manual of veterinary homeopathy
F. (Frederick) Humphreys
This guide offers a window into the nineteenth-century shift away from harsh medical interventions toward a gentler approach for treating the animals that powered, fed, and accompanied daily life. It serves as both a historical record of veterinary practice and a testament to the enduring human desire to soothe the…