Medical

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…

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…

Microbe Hunters

by Paul De Kruif • Read by Warren Kati • 4.5★

Microbe Hunters provides dramatized accounts of eleven early pioneers of microbiology and their important discoveries. Beginning in 1650 wit…

Malaria: A Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome

by William Henry Samuel Jones • Read by Leon Harvey • 5★

This short book has the objective of showing how important it is to stamp out malaria as soon as possible. Unlike a plague that suddenly tak…

Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty

by Stephen Coleridge • Read by Jeffery • 5★

Vivisection is a pejorative term used by opponents of the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of physiological…

An Alabama Student

by Sir William Osler • Read by David Wales • 2★

Here are thirteen biographical sketches of physicians penned by one of the founders of modern medicine, William Osler, published in 1908. &…

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 …

Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy

by James Moores Ball • Read by David Wales • 3.2★

Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…

Über die Dummheit

by Leopold Loewenfeld • Read by Claus Misfeldt • 4.4★

In seinem Werk aus dem Jahr 1909 behandelt der Autor umfassend das Phänomen der menschlichen Dummheit - wohlgemerkt zu einer Zeit, in d…

Malaria in Greek History

by William Henry Samuel Jones • Read by Leon Harvey • 5★

This book is an attempt to correct and develop the theory proposed tentatively in the little work Malaria. Put briefly, this theory is as fo…

Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

by Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Advisory Committee On Human Radiation Experiments • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 5★

Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and ra…

History of the Johnstown Flood

by Willis Fletcher Johnson • Read by Tatiana Chichilla • 4.5★

An account of the Johnstown Flood, the most devastating loss of civilian life in the United States prior to the terrorist attacks of Septemb…