Health

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

Pet Food Labels : Nutritional Adequacy, Ingredients
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The guaranteed analysis specifies the product's minimum percentages of crude protein and crude fat. It also gives the maximum percentages of crude fiber and moisture. 'Crude' refers to a specific method of measuring the nutrient, and is not an indication

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.

Robots Helping Surgeons : Why Use Robots? Robotic Heart Surgery
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Along with helping surgeons perform minimally invasive surgical tasks, robots have superhuman capabilities that make surgery easier, says Paul Massimiano, M.D., a cardiac surgeon at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia.

The People and Pets Health Connection
Fitness Unleashed!
by Marty Becker, D.V.M., Robert F. Kushner, M.D.
People and dogs have always leaned on one another. In return for food, shelter, and affection, dogs are helpmates in everything from retrieving downed ducks to guarding the house and guiding the blind.

GHB: Accidental Overdose Resulting In Seizures, Coma or Death
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
GHB was first synthesized in 1960 and, before its harmful potential became known, was sold at health food stores as a dietary supplement. In the '80s, GHB was popular among bodybuilders because of its supposed ability to release a growth hormone

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.

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.

The Pregnant Mare's Lesson
Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs
by Jerry Avorn, M.D.
In a former British colony, most healers believed the conventional wisdom that a distillation of fluids extracted from the urine of horses, if dried to a powder and fed to aging women, could act as a general tonic, preserve youth, and ward off a variety

People Can Change
Eight Weeks to Optimum Health
by Andrew Weil, M.D.
In Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, Dr. Andrew Weil translates the brilliant insights and discoveries he outlined in his acclaimed bestseller, Spontaneous Healing, into a practical plan of action: a week-by-week, step-by-step program for enhancing and prote

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

How to Live; Rules for Healthful Living
by Irving Fisher, Eugene Lyman Fisk, M.D.
To one who has been an eye-witness of the wonderful achievements of American medical science in the conquest of acute communicable and pestilential diseases in those regions of the earth where they were supposed to be impregnably entrenched

A Handbook of Health
by Woods Hutchinson
Looking upon the human body from the physical point of view as the most perfect, most ingeniously economical, and most beautiful of living machines, the author has attempted to write a little handbook of practical instruction for the running of it.

Prescriptions for Healthier Animals : Distressed Dogs and Separation Anxiety
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The only other FDA-approved drug for animal behavioral problems currently on the market is Clomicalm, manufactured by Novartis Animal Health US, Inc., of Greensboro, N.C. Clomicalm is to be used as part of a behavior modification program to treat

Middle Ear Infections
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Medical thinking is changing on how to treat middle ear infections-that all-too-common childhood malady. The greatest debate is about the role of antibiotics and tympanostomy tubes in chronic otitis media.

Over the Counter Drugs: Tummy Turmoil
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A vague queasiness stirs in your stomach. Queasy quickly turns to severely nauseated. A sour bubble rises in your throat, and you dash for the bathroom in a cold sweat. Whatever the cause, the nausea and vomiting of an upset stomach are nasty.

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

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.

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

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.