Health & Fitness

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 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.

Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality

by Mary Edwards Walker Read by Pamela Nagami 4.1
Mary Edwards Walker was a physician and surgeon who served in the Civil War. An abolitionist, prohibitionist, and cross-dressing leader of t…

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…

How to Care for the Insane

by William D. Granger Read by Ann Boulais 4.2
How to Care for the Insane by William D. Granger is a historical manual that explores the principles of caregiving for individuals with ment…

Studies in the Psychology of Sex

by Havelock Ellis Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Volume 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and PainIn the study of Love and Pain I have discussed the sources of those aberrations which…

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…

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…

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…

Nerves and Common Sense

by Annie Payson Call Read by Scientila Duddempudi 5
This is a collection of 30 articles on mental health, stress reducing and general advice on how to deal with everday problems at work or at …

Religion and Health

by James Joseph Walsh Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
In the introductory chapter and the one following we find the strong presentation of his thesis on the everlasting reality of religion. The …

The Uses of Water in Health and Disease

by John Harvey Kellogg Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
A practical guide in the use of hydrotherapy for the treatment of disease and the promotion of health. - Summary by Brian Wilson

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…

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…

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…

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…

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