Health & Fitness

The Major Symptoms of Hysteria

by Pierre Janet Read by Peter Tucker 5
In this series of lectures delivered in English by the author while visiting the USA, Janet summarises the (at the time) cutting edge perspe…

The Logic of Vegetarianism

by Henry Salt Read by Lee Smalley 4.7
With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a “flesh-eating” diet, and his ar…

Music in Medicine

by Sidney Licht Read by James R. Hedrick 4.5
In spite of a spirited rebirth of the movement towards the establishment of a system of healing based on music, there are many valuable uses…

Obesity and Diabetes

by Various 4.5
Obesity and diabetes are increasingly a burden in modern populations, and whilst the contributions of our lifestyles are well-known, other a…

Pleasure Cycling

by Henry Clyde Read by TriciaG 4.7
"In this little book, the writer, looking back to his own days of inexperience in cycling, has endeavored to furnish some useful inform…

Habits that Handicap

by Charles B. Towns Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Habits that Handicap delves into the complex world of addiction, exploring the psychological and social factors that contribute to alcoholis…

The Prospective Mother

by J. Morris Slemons Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy. This book, written for women who have no special knowledge of medicine, aims to answer the questions …

Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls

by Ernest A. Bell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls, the methods by which the procurers and panders lure innocent young …

The Mystery of Pain

by James Hinton Read by Ethan D. Gilkey 4.5
This book is addressed to the sorrowful, ... to whom their own or others' pain is a daily burden, upon whose hearts it weighs with an intole…

Brain and Personality

by William Hanna Thomson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
One of the earlier works on brain science, relating what was then known or conjectured about the connection between the physical brain and t…

Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement

by Alva Agee Read by KHand 4.7
This book is not a technical treatise and is designed only to point out the plain, every-day facts in the natural scheme of making and keepi…

Health and Fitness

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is the seventeenth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes o…

A Treatise on Bread, and Bread-Making

by Sylvester Graham Read by Tatiana Chichilla 5
Sylvester Graham, also known as the "Father of Vegetarianism", was a Presbyterian minister who emphasized clean eating. Graham end…

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. …

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…

Private Sex Advice to Women

by R. B. Armitage Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
In this book the writer thereof seeks to convey to women—particularly to young wives and women expecting to be married—certain important fac…

Infection and Immunity

by George M. Sternberg Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.8
Infection and Immunity with Special Reference to the Prevention of Infectious Diseases presents a subject that is as relevant today as it wa…

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…

Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants

by Arthur Robert Harding Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
When the price of Ginseng advanced some years ago hundreds engaged in the business who knew little or nothing of farming, plant raising and …

1000 Things Worth Knowing

by Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that…

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