Medicine (Bookshelf)

History

• Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine  Elliott, James Sands
• Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century  Handerson, Henry Ebenezer
• Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages  Walsh, James Joseph, 1865-1942
• The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913  Osler, William, 1849-1919
• The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology  Various authors
• Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain  Deane, Edmund
• An Essay on the Shaking Palsy  James Parkinson -- the original description of the neurological disorder now named "Parkinsonism"

Instructional for Doctors

(Warning: Medical procedures and remedies described in these books may be outdated, dangerous, or illegal)

• A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners  Bell, Joseph, 1837-1911
• Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery  Jackson, Chevalier, 1865-1958
• On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery  Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912
• Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.  Miles, Alexander and Thomson, Alexis
• Surgical Anatomy  Maclise, Joseph
• Appendicitis  Tilden, John Henry, 1851-1940

Nursing

• Notes on Nursing What It Is, and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale Plain text  HTML and Plain text 
• Applied Psychology for Nurses  Porter, Mary F.

Patent Medicines, quack remedies

• History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills  Shaw, Robert B.
• A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries As well in Relation to Patients, as Physicians: And Of the only Remedy thereof by Physicians making their own Medicines.  Merrett, Christopher
• Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured  Cluthe Rupture Institute
• Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc.  Civiale Remedial Agency
• Food and Health  Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company (A cook book, filled with testimonials to the power of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound)

Public Health

• A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy  Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
• Hygeia, a City of Health  Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 1828-1896
• Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health  Waring, George E. (George Edwin), 1833-1898
• Civics and Health  Allen, William H.
• Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health 
• Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health  New Zealand Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders

Self-help Books

(Warning: Medical advice and remedies described in these books may be outdated, dangerous, or illegal)

• Mother's Remedies; Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remidies from Mothers of the United States and Canada  Ritter, Thomas Jefferson, 1855-
• The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand  Pierce, Ray Vaughn, 1840-1914
• Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration  Dechmann, Louis
• The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine  Various, Daniel, Charles William [Editor]
• How and When to Be Your Own Doctor  Moser, Isabel and Solomon, Steve
• Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners; A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage  Jefferis, B.G. and Nichols, J. L.
• Searchlights on Health; The Science of Eugenics  Jefferis, B. G. and Nichols, J. L.
• Sex; Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English  Stanton, Henry
• The Eugenic Marriage by Hague, W. Grant (William Grant), 1868-

Vol. 1 , Vol. 2 , Vol. 4 

• The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction; Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male  Hall, Winfield Scott, 1861-

Miscellaneous

• Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine  Gould, George M., 1848-1922, and Pyle, Walter Lytle, 1871-
• Doctor and Patient  Mitchell, S. Weir, 1829-1914
• Fat and Blood: An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria  Mitchell, S. Weir, 1829-1914
• Observations on the Causes, Symptoms, and Nature of Scrofula or King's Evil, Scurvy, and Cancer With Cases Illustrative of a Peculiar Mode of Treatment  Kent, John
• Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society  Cox, Joseph Bradford
• Glaucoma; A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913  ed. Nance, Willis O. and Peck, Wesley Hamilton
• Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology  Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )
• An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases  Withering, William, 1741-1799