Health
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Symptoms by Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D. You hold in your hands the most valuable and easy-to-use home medical reference ever published. Written by Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, a distinguished physician and best-selling author, Symptoms is a complete guide to all the aches, pains, and physical
Okinawa, The Real Shangri-La
The Okinawa Program: How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health - And How You Can Too by Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., M.Sc., D. Craig Willcox, PH.D., M.H.SC., Makoto Suzuki, M.D., PH.D. The Okinawa Program, authored by a team of internationally renowned experts, is based on the landmark scientifically documented twenty-five-year Okinawa Centenarian Study, a Japanese Ministry of health - sponsored study.
The Mind and Cancer
Getting Well Again: The Bestselling Classic About the Simontons' Revolutionary Lifesaving Self-Awareness Techniques by O. Carl Simonton, M.D., James Creighton, Ph.D., Stephanie Matthews Simonton Based on the Simontons' experience with hundreds of patients at their world-famous Cancer Counseling and Research Center, Getting Well Again introduces the scientific basis for the will to live.
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Move into Life: The Nine Essentials for Lifelong Vitality by Anat Baniel Remember a time when you were bursting with energy, curiosity, and creativity? When your body felt strong and flexible, free of any aches and pains? With the Anat Baniel Method, you can feel that way again and experience renewed, intensified vitality
Confessions of Real-Life Forensic Pathologist
How Not to Die: Surprising Lessons from America's Favorite Medical Examiner by Jan Garavaglia,M.D. Thousands of people make an early exit each year and arrive on medical examiner Jan Garavaglia's table. What is particularly sad about this is that many of these deaths could easily have been prevented. Although Dr. Garavaglia, or Dr. G, as she's known
Non-Local Consciousness and the Revolution In Medicine
Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World by Dawson Church, Geralyn Gendreau Healing Our Planet, Healing Ourselves is an ambitious collection of powerful ideas from some of the most advanced thinkers of our generation. In a series of interwoven essays and interviews, it explores the link between our individual wellness
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The Thyroid Solution: A Mind-Body Program for Beating Depression and Regaining Your Emotional and Physical Health by Ridha Arem, M.D. It's sometimes called a hidden epidemic: One in ten Americans - more than twenty million people, most of them women - has a thyroid disorder. At any given time, millions of people have an undiagnosed thyroid disorder and experience a chronic mental anguis
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. Walters To derive strength equal to the daily task; to experience the advantages of health and avoid the pain, inconvenience, and danger of disease; to live out contentedly and usefully the natural span of life: these are problems that concern all people.
American Woman's Home by Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe If the parents of a family should daily withhold from their children a large portion of food needful to growth and health and every night should administer to each a small dose of poison, it would be called murder of the most hideous character.
Hygienic Physiology: with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele, Ph.D. Bones differ in form according to the uses they sub serve. For convenience in walking, some are long; for strength and compactness, some are short and thick; for covering a cavity, some are flat; and for special purposes, some are irregular.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine
by William Osler This work, composed originally for a lay audience and for popular consumption, will be to the aspiring medical student and the hardworking practitioner a lift into the blue, an inspiring vista or 'Pisgah-sight' of the evolution of medicine
How to Eat: A Cure for Nerves by Thomas C. Hinkle A very sad thing about some nervous people is the fact that in their lives there are domestic or other troubles which no physician can overcome. Some of them live in depressing surroundings, but for all these there is hope.
Freedom Talks No. II by Julia Seton, M.D. Ever since the birth of the human race there have been health and disease. Everywhere we find those who live at levels of comprehension that cannot express in flesh the perfect power of the word and these must by natural law take on the form
Papers on Health by John Kirk In this book we set forth a series of simple remedies and preventives of many common troubles. They are all well tried and have been proved by long experience to be effective and safe. We give, as far as we know, the reasons why they are likely to do well
Find the Fire
Why Good Things Happen to Good People: The Exciting New Research that Proves the Link Between Doing Good and Living a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life by Stephen Post, Ph.D., Jill Neimark A longer life. A happier life. A healthier life. Above all, a life that matters - so that when you leave this world, you'll have changed it for the better. If science said you could have all this just by altering one behavior, would you?
As a Matter of Course by Annie Payson Call As far as we make circumstances guides and not limitations, they serve us. Otherwise, we serve them, and suffer accordingly. Just in proportion, too, to our allowing circumstances to be limits do we resist them.
Doctor and Patient by S. Weir Mitchell, M.D. The essays which compose this volume deal chiefly with a variety of subjects to which every physician must have given more or less thought. Some of them touch on matters concerning the mutual relation of physician and patient
Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden Vitality first of all means endurance and the ability to live long. It naturally indicates functional and organic vigor. You cannot be vital unless the organs of the body are possessed of at least a normal degree of strength and are performing
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George M. Gould, M.D., Walter L. Pyle, M.D. Since the time when man's mind first busied itself with subjects beyond his own self-preservation and the satisfaction of his bodily appetites, the anomalous and curious have been of exceptional and persistent fascination to him
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by James Sands Elliott The origin of the healing art in Ancient Rome is shrouded in uncertainty. The earliest practice of medicine was undoubtedly theurgic, and common to all primitive peoples. The offices of priest and of medicine-man were combined in one person
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