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Excerpt from Health and Life The learned Editor of Good Words invited me, two years ago, to write for the pages of his journal some half-dozen papers on subjects relating to Health. I undertook the task, intending to produce nothing more than a few chapters which would serve the immediate purpose for which they were intended, and would remain a part of periodical literature. When, however, the pen is in the hand of the writer, he is apt, if...

Excerpt from Thomas Sopwith, 1891: With Excerpts From His Diary of Fifty-Seven Years It has long been known through the wide circle of his friends and acquaintances that the late Mr. Thomas Sop with left at his death a remarkable Diary. Two years ago the members of his family, who had the Diary in their charge, requested me, as an old friend of Mr. Sopwith, to make a study of the work, with the view of preparing from it a modest treatise of s...

Excerpt from Diseases of Modern Life E 1.5:v years ago I published a series of essays on diseases of overworked men, in order to direct attention to the physical injuries of the body that are induced by excessive men'al work and worry, and by excessive physical exertion. These essays were followed by others on disease from some occupations, from indulgence in alco hol, and from the use of tobacco. At the time they were written, and long afte...

Excerpt from The Asclepiad, Vol. 11: A Book of Original Research and Observation in the Science, Art, and Literature of Medicine, Preventive and CurativeIn the way of compensation, to some extent, for the loss of time, I have added to the four parts that have been published several additional pages, which will, I trust, be accepted. I also trust that the new pages of selected readings, promised in last volume, will meet with the approval of th...

Excerpt from The Health of Nations, Vol. 1 of 2: A Review of the Works of Edwin Chadwick, With a Biographical Dissertation Dear Mrs. Chadwick, When in the olden times our forefathers desired to perpetuate the memory of a man who had rendered great services to his country and age, they were wont to include in the record of his name and eminent deeds, the name also of her, his chosen companion, whose talents, virtues, and affections were the ...

Excerpt from The Asclepiad: A Book of Original Research and Observation in the Science, Art, and Literature of Medicine, Preventive and Curative, 1885 I Have under my care at this moment, and have had for some years, a lady who suffers, from time to time, from sudden and complete failure of the circulation in the fingers of one or other hand. To the condition thus occurring I give the name of local syncope, or suspended life in local surfaces...

Excerpt from The Commonhealth: A Series of Essays on Health and Felicity, for Every-Day Readers In the depths of the night, in a climate where night is short, in the midst of that short interval when even the gods are supposed to rest, when the sun-god himself has withdrawn from the earth, and the sun sees not the deeds of men, some men and women of the earth, in solemn silence, bring something forth from home. If they should speak there wou...

Excerpt from The Son of a Star, Vol. 2 of 3: A Romance of the Second Century Except the sentinels, the soldiers of the Roman encampment are all in their tents as the escort which bears the relics from the great fire enters the eastern gate. Here, acting under orders, the members of the escort proceed at a slow and quiet pace to their own quarters, dismount with equal quietude, litter down their steeds, pile their arms, and leaving the trophie...

Excerpt from The Son of a Star, Vol. 3 of 3: A Romance, Of the Second Century Akiba returns to Joppa. Attended by a few of his attached students, without the slightest display or announcement, he enters the place at the time of sunset, and proceeds straight to the synagogue, to speak to the people who, night by night, have met together awaiting his return. His communion with them is very short, although they rejoice truly at his presence, f...

Excerpt from A Ministry of Health: And Other Addresses Three of these addresses, published originally in the 'Gentleman's Magazine, ' having been often called for, are supplied in this volume, together with six others dealing with allied subjects. The first address, on A Ministry of Health, was delivered before the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, at the Stafford Congress of the Institute, in October last, and was intended to invite atte...

Excerpt from The Field of Disease: A Book of Preventive Medicine The prevention, no less than the cure of disease, is now understood to belong to the function of the physician, to whom alone the public can look for protection as well as for rescue. As the author very truly says: "The conception that these afflictions can be prevented is of modern times, and indeed we may say practically of the present century, or even of the later two-thirds ...

Excerpt from The Asclepiad, Vol. 3: A Book of Original Research and Observation in the Science, Art, and Literature of Medicine, Preventive and Curative, 1886 The third volume of the asclepiad has been brought to its completion. To this has been added the ex treme satisfaction of seeing how freely and generously the various subjects introduced into the volume have. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare ...

Excerpt from The Asclepiad, Vol. 4: A Book of Original Research and Observation in the Science, Art, and Literature of Medicine, Preventive and Curative In this volume of The Asclepiad, published during an exceptional year, an exceptional variation has been introduced in one part, that, namely, which has been devoted to a review of medicine in the Victorian era. The numerous congratulations received in regard to this innovation may tempt me, ...

Excerpt from The Asclepiad, Vol. 10: A Book of Original Research and Observation in the Science, Art, and Literature of Medicine, Preventive and Curative With this, the fortieth number of the asclepiad, I bring to a close the tenth annual volume. In next volume there Will appear, from time to time, a new section consisting of historical excerpts from past masterpieces of physio, each selected as a classical reading rendering justice to first...

Excerpt from The Asclepiad, Vol. 6: A Book of Original Research and Observation in the Science, Art, and Literature of Medicine, Preventive and Curative, 1889 The present volume of the Asclepiad differs from its predecessors in that the last part is addressed more particularly to students of medicine who are in their collegiate career, a change which more advanced students will, I hope, readily pardon. In this volume the plan of distributing...

Excerpt from The Asclepiad, Vol. 7: A Book of Original Research and Observation in the Science, Art, and Literature of Medicine, Preventive and Curative In accordance with a wish largely expressed, this volume contains a series of Reports, running on from niimber to number, of a therapeutical research carried out many years ago. These Reports have been so well received, I shall from time to time continue them in future, perhaps not in serial ...

Excerpt from Biological Experimentation, Its Function and Limits: Including Answers to Nine Questions Submitted From the Leigh-Browne Trust I can have no objection to answer the questions submitted to me, and in the answers will be as fair as possible. Ishall use my own past work in respect to experimentation, and shall answer the questions apart from what I may conceive to be the wishes of the questioners themselves. About the Publisher Fo...

Excerpt from Public School Temperance: Lessons on Alcohol, and Its Action on the BodyThe book Will be sold to pupils and the public for twenty five cents. It Will not fail to be observed that, though contain ing all of the matter of the English edition, it is only one-half of the price.The plan of the Work Will readily commend itself. Each branch of the subject is presented in simple language, and arranged in a short lesson, to Which questions...

Ten Lectures on Alcohol is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1883. 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 literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes th...

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