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Excerpt from Science Progress, Vol. 3The Carnic Alps are the subject of two memoirs (4, of which the first is a continuation of a part previously pub lished, but the two parts have been issued in book form with some large extra geological maps. Rocks belonging to all sys tems, from Precambrian to Permian inclusive, are described. The Silurian rocks apparently resemble those of Eastern Bohemia, and above them a great mass of Devonian limestones...

Excerpt from At Home, Vol. 3 of 3: A NovelProbably it was owing to this unacknowledged speculation that her toilet was so carefully attended to on the morning after Lady Cole raine's ball: she found, too, in the course of the day, a variety of reasons for preferring the front drawing-room to her usual favourite, the library, and even in cutting her pencils, repairing her pens, and performing such other little operations as required the immedia...

Excerpt from The Relative Mortality After Amputations of Large and Small Hospitals: And the Influence of the Antiseptic (Listerian) System Upon Such MortalityI Billroth Chirurgische. Klinik, Zurich, 1866-67. Simpsons Works, vol. Ii, pp. 280-400, Article Hospitalism.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historic...

Excerpt from Hospitals and Asylums of the World, Vol. 2 of 4: Their Origin, History, Construction, Administration, Management, and Legislation, With Plans of the Chief Medical Institutions Accurately Drawn to an Uniform Scale, Asylum Construction, With Plans and BibliographyIn the circumstances just mentioned it has been very difficult to decide what plans to give in this work. It seemed a useless task to repeat examples of the four types, bec...

Excerpt from Science Progress, Vol. 7In 1883 the Anthropometric Committee of the British Association published their final report. The committee was appointed for the purpose of collecting observations on the systematic examination of the height, weight, span, chest girth, breathing capacity, strength, colour-blindness.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks....

Excerpt from Hospitals and Asylums of the World, Vol. 3 of 4: Their Origin, History, Construction, Administration, Management, and Legislation, Hospitals, History and AdministrationIt is necessary that this statement Should be made, seeing that the delay has caused many of the subscribers no little inconvenience, but the author hopes that the explanation here given will be accepted, with the expression of his Sincere regret at the unavoidable ...

Excerpt from Hospitals and Asylums of the World, Vol. 3 of 4: Their Origin, History, Construction, Administration, Management, and Legislation, Hospitals, History and AdministrationIt is necessary that this statement Should be made, seeing that the delay has caused many of the subscribers no little inconvenience, but the author hopes that the explanation here given will be accepted, with the expression of his Sincere regret at the unavoidable ...

Excerpt from Report of the Third Congress of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain: Held at Croydon, October, 1879, Also the Calendar and Bye-Laws, Being Volume I. Of the TransactionsThe proceedings of the present Congress were divided into sectional meetings, both forenoon and afternoon, and evening meetings. An introductory address was delivered to the Congress at the first general meeting by the President, Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson, an...

Excerpt from Report of the Third Congress of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain: Held at Croydon, October, 1879, Also the Calendar and Bye-Laws, Being Volume I. Of the TransactionsThe proceedings of the present Congress were divided into sectional meetings, both forenoon and afternoon, and evening meetings. An introductory address was delivered to the Congress at the first general meeting by the President, Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson, an...

Excerpt from Prince, Princess, and People: An Account of the Social Progress and Development of Our Own Times, as Illustrated by the Public Life and Work of Their Royal Highnesses, The Prince and Princess of Wales, 1863-1889It is our pleasant duty to warmly acknowledge the assistance rendered in the course of our inquiry by the authorities of institutions and others, and wherever possible the Prince has been made his own biographer. We have th...

Excerpt from Prince, Princess, and People: An Account of the Social Progress and Development of Our Own Times, as Illustrated by the Public Life and Work of Their Royal Highnesses, The Prince and Princess of Wales, 1863-1889It is our pleasant duty to warmly acknowledge the assistance rendered in the course of our inquiry by the authorities of institutions and others, and wherever possible the Prince has been made his own biographer. We have th...

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Cottage Hospitals, General, Fever and Convalescent - Their progress, management and work in Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America: with an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital at present opened is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, an...

The Relative Mortality After Amputations of Large and Small Hospitals - And the influence of the antiseptic (Listerian) system upon such mortality is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical li...

Excerpt from Dora Barton, the Banker's Ward: A Tale of Real Life in New YorkIr was a cold, raw, cheerless night, in the month of December, 18 The northeast wind was howling fiercely through the streets, and the few scattering ¿akes of snow which came down gave warning of the approach of a severe storm.Pedestrians were hurrying homewards with their faces muf¿ed up as they breasted the wintry blast, and the streets wore an aspect of desolation a...

Pochi crimini ci fanno temere per l'evoluzione della nostra specie. Ne ho sotto gli occhi uno prorio ora". Sonchai Jitpleecheep è un detective del distretto 8 di polizia di Bangkok, ex monaco buddhista, figlio di una prostituta thai e di un americano reduce del Vietnam. Se un uomo della sua sperienza pronuncia una frase simile, si può esere certi che ci troviamo dinanzi a un delitto che a al di là di ogni immaginazione, siamo in una stanza osc...

Excerpt from At Home, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel The internal arrangements were on the same model. A large hall, with a fire-place, a smaller one for the two staircases: four rooms surrounding' these. Every body knows the rest of the place. Out of the four rooms, two were drawing rooms, thrown together with folding-doors, and furnished, tassel for tassel, the same as nine tenths of the drawing-rooms in the parish of Mary-le-bone. Even the ¿owers h...

Excerpt from At Home, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel Probably it was owing to this unacknowledged speculation that her toilet was so carefully attended to on the morning after Lady Cole raine's ball: she found, too, in the course of the day, a variety of reasons for preferring the front drawing-room to her usual favourite, the library, and even in cutting her pencils, repairing her pens, and performing such other little operations as required the immed...

Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism explores two key areas: first, the debates taking place in England during the last two decades of the nineteenth century about the position of women, and, second, the volatile events of the 1890s in South Africa, which culminated in war between the British Empire and the Boer republics in 1899. Through a detailed reading of the fictional and non-fictional writing of one extraordinary woman, Olive Sc...