Model Number: BBALEBBASEID_80923DLDA
Author: Blaisdell, Albert F.
a selection from the INTRODUCTION: 1. The Study of Physiology. We are now to take up a new study, and in a field quite different from any we have thus far entered. Of all our other studies,--mathematics, physics, history, language,--not one comes home to us with such peculiar interest as does physiology ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASEID_60646DLDA
Author: Various
from the AUTHOR'S NOTE TO THE CHILD: This book has been prepared to help you in learning about the house you live in, and to teach you to take care of it, and keep it from being destroyed by two of its greatest enemies,--Alcohol and Nicotine. As you study its pages, be sure to find out the meaning ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASEID_93211DLDA
Author: Eckman, Rena Sarah: Hill, Lewis Webb
From Preface: For forty-eight hours after admission to the hospital the patient is kept on ordinary diet, to determine the severity of his diabetes. Then he is starved, and no food allowed save whiskey and black coffee. The whiskey is given in the coffee: 1 ounce of whiskey every two hours, from 7 a ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASEID_56683DLDA
Author: Nightingale, Florence
From the PREFACE: The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse. They are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others. Every woman, or ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASEID_83869DLDA
Author: Hippocrates
selections from the book: PART 1 It appears to me a most excellent thing for the physician to cultivate Prognosis; for by foreseeing and foretelling, in the presence of the sick, the present, the past, and the future, and explaining the omissions which patients have been guilty of, he will be the more ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASEID_82098DLDA
Author: Handerson, Henry
Gilbertus Anglicus also known as Gilbert of England (Circa 1180; - cica 1250) was an English physician of the Medieval period. He is known chiefly for his encyclopedic work the Compendium of Medicine, (Compendium Medicinae,) most probably written between 1230 and 1250. This was an attempt at a comprehensive ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASEID_62480DLDA
Author: Korinek, Chas. J.
from the FOREWORD: This treatise on the diseases of domestic animals has been written with the primary purpose of placing in the hands of stock owners, a book of practical worth; hence, all technical language or terms, as used by the professional veterinarian, have been eliminated and only such language ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASEID_35818DLDA
Author: Mettrie, Julien Offray de La
This work is considered as one of the earliest regarding the affirmations of materialism and atheism. It presents the philosophical ideas of the author and provokes thought process. more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASEID_85205DLDA
Author: Paracelsus, Phillipus Theophrastus
a selection from the introductory: THE SCIENCE AND NATURE OF ALCHEMY, AND WHAT OPINION SHOULD BE FORMED THEREOF. Regulated by the Seven Rules or Fundamental Canons according to the seven commonly known Metals; and containing a Preface with certain Treatises and Appendices. PREFACE TO ALL ALCHEMISTS ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASEID_67367DLDA
Author: Kent, John
published in 1833 from the PREFACE: In consequence of the extreme prevalence of Scrofulous, Scorbutic, and Cancerous Diseases, and the ignorance which exists on the part of the public, as to their causes, symptoms, and nature, I have been induced to reprint my observations on those subjects, and to send ...more »
