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• Medicine -- Popular works

• Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women (second edition; 2023), by A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell, and Katharine Shapiro, ed. by Sandy Niemann (HTML and PDF files at hesperian.org)
• The Cherokee Physician: or, Indian Guide to Health (Asheville, NC: Edney and Dedman, 1849), by Richard Foreman, contrib. by Jas. W. Mahoney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Know Thyself: or, Nature's Secrets Revealed (Marietta, OH: The S. A. Mullikin Co., 1911), by Samuel Fallows and W. J. Truitt (multiple formats at Google)
• The Merck Manual (current consumer version) (illustrated HTML at merckmanuals.com)
• Our Family Physician: A Thoroughly Reliable Guide to the Detection and Treatment of All Diseases That Can be Either Checked in Their Career, or Treated Entirely by Any Intelligent Person, Without the Aid of a Physician, Especially Such as Require Prompt and Energetic Measures, and Those Peculiar to This Country (Chicago: J. S. Goodman and Co.; et al., 1869)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Our Home Physician: A New and Popular Guide to the Art of Preserving Health and Treating Disease; With Plain Advice for All the Medical and Surgical Emergencies of the Family (New York: E.B. Treat and Co.; et al., 1869), by George M. Beard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Traité des Erreurs Populaires sur la Santé (in French; La Haye: P. F. Gosse, 1775), by D. T. de Bienville
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Without Bounds: The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'aqov Wazana (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2000), by Yoram Bilu (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Nebraska Folk Cures (1935), by Pauline Monette Black (PDF at unl.edu)
• Dr. Chase's New Receipt Book (Toronto: Rose Pub. Co., 1889), by A. W. Chase (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Family Nurse, or, Companion of The Frugal Housewife (London: R. Bentley, 1837), by Lydia Maria Child
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• How to Get the Best Medical Care: A Guide for the Intelligent Patient, by Aniruddh Malpani and Anjali Malpani (frame-dependent HTML at thebestmedicalcare.com)
• Search Lights 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 (Toronto: J.L. Nichols, ca. 1894), by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Aristotle's Compleat Master-Piece, in Three Parts (17th edition, 1728), by Pseudo Aristotele (page images at NIH)
• Domestic Medicine (second edition, 1785), by William Buchan (HTML with commentary at americanrevolution.org)
• Here Begynneth a Good Booke of Medecines Called, the Treasure of Poore Men (London: T. Colwell, 1565) (page images at NIH)
• The Modern Family Physician: Being Dr Green's Treasure of Health, or, Cabinet of Cures Unlock'd, In Which All His Public Medicines Are Made Known; To Which is Prefixed, A New Treatise on the Various Diseases Incident To Children (1783), by Dr. Green (page images at NIH)
• The Queens Closet Opened: Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chyrurgery, Preserving, Candying, and Cookery; As They Were Presented to the Queen (fourth edition corrected; London: Printed for N. Brooks, 1658) (page images in Barcelona)
• The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion (14th edition; London: Printed for R. Ware et al., 1750), by E. Smith
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The English House-Wife: Containing the Inward and Outward Vertues Which Ought to Be in a Compleat Woman (London: Printed for G. Sawbridge, 1675), by Gervase Markham (page images in Barcelona)
• A Guide to Health Through the Various Stages of Life (London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1754), by Bernard Lynch (page images at NIH)
• Natura Exenterata: or, Nature Unbowelled by the Most Exquisite Anatomizers of Her (London: H. Twiford et al., 1655), by Philiatros
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Poor Man's Physician, or The Receipts of The Famous John Moncrief of Tippermalloch: Being a Choice Collection of Simple and Easy Remedies For Most Distempers; To Which Is Added, The Method of Curing The Small Pox and Scurvy (second edition; Edinburgh: Printed for J. Paton, 1716), by John Moncrief, contrib. by Archibald Pitcairn (page images at NIH)
• The Queen-Like Closet, or Rich Cabinet, Stored with All Manner of Rare Receipts for Preserving, Candying and Cookery: Very Pleasant and Benefical to All Ingenious Persons of the Female Sex (second edition; London: Printed for R. Lowndes, 1672), by Hannah Woolley (page images in Barcelona)
• A Queens Delight: or, The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying; As Also a Right Knowledge of Making Perfumes, and Distilling the Most Excellent Waters (London: Printed by E. Tyler and R. Holt for N. Brooke, 1671) (Gutenberg text)
• The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher (the 1735 canon of this pseudonymous work), by Pseudo Aristotele (HTML with commentary at exclassics.com)
• The Cook's Pocket-Companion and Compleat Family-Guide: Being a Collection of the Very Best Receipts (London: Printed for J. Staples, 1758), by Lydia Honeywood (page images at NIH)
• The Family's Best Friend, or The Whole Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy: Together With a Complete System of Brewery; The Management of Malt Liquors; The Distillery of Simple and Compound Waters, Family Cordials, &c; and Instructions for the Cultivating of the Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen Garden (6th edition; London: Printed for C. Henderson, ca. 1755), by Arabella Fairfax (page images at NIH)
• New Experiments Upon Vipers, With Exquisite Remedies, That May Be Drawn From Them, As Well For the Cure of Their Bitings, As For That of Other Maladies; Also a Letter of Francisco Redi, Concerning Some Objections Made Upon His Observations About Vipers, Written To Monsieur Bourdelot and Mr. Alex. Morus; Together With the Sequel of New Experiments Upon Vipers, In a Reply To a Letter Written By Sign. F. Redi (London: Printed for J. Martyn, 1673), by Moyse Charas and Francesco Redi
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia (HTML at nih.gov)

• Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook (updated revised edition, 2025), by David Werner, Carol Thuman, and Jane Maxwell (PDF with commentary at hesperian.org)
• The Poor Man's Physician, or The Receipts of The Famous John Moncrief of Tippermalloch: Being a Choice Collection of Simple and Easy Remedies For Most Distempers; To Which Is Added, The Method of Curing The Small Pox and Scurvy (second edition; Edinburgh: Printed for J. Paton, 1716), by John Moncrief, contrib. by Archibald Pitcairn (page images at NIH)

• The Aesculapian Register (full serial archives)
• Health and Hygiene (1935-1938) (full serial archives)

• The Aesculapian Register (full serial archives)

• Smart Health Choices: Making Sense of Health Advice (London: Hammersmith Press, 2008), by Les Irwig, Judy Irwig, Lyndal Trevena, and Melissa Sweet (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Fourteen Fountains of Youth (Sepulveda, CA: Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Administration Medical Center, ca. 1990), by Arthur Cherkin and John E. Morley, illust. by Hermine Kavanau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches (4 volumes; 2008), ed. by Kerm Henriksen, James Bruce Battles, Margaret A. Keyes, and Mary L. Grady
  • Volume 1 (Assessment): HTML at NIH
  • Volume 2 (Culture and Redesign): HTML at NIH
  • Volume 3 (Performance and Tools): HTML at NIH
  • Volume 4 (Technology and Medication Safety): HTML at NIH
• Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation (4 volumes; 2005), ed. by Kerm Henriksen, James Bruce Battles, Eric S. Marks, and David I. Lewin
  • Volume 1 (Research Findings): HTML at NIH
  • Volume 2 (Concepts and Methodology): HTML at NIH
  • Volume 3 (Implementation Issues): HTML at NIH
  • Volume 4 (Programs, Tools, and Products): HTML at NIH

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Genesis and Control of Disease: An Attempt to Demonstrate the Pathological Possibilities of Emotional and Physical Maladjustment and Resultant Metabolic and Nutritional Disturbance (Los Angeles: Press of Phillips Printing Co., 1931), by George S. Weger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aequanimitas; With Other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses and Practitioners of Medicine (second edition, with 3 additional addresses; London: H. K. Lewis, 1914), by William Osler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Alabama Student, and Other Biographical Essays, by William Osler (HTML at jcmi.edu)
• Medical Essays, 1842-1882, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• Medical Inquiries and Observations (second American edition, revised and expanded, 4 volumes; Philadelphia: J. Conrad and Co. et al., 1805), by Benjamin Rush
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• Nature in Disease, Illustrated in Various Discourses and Essays; To Which Are Added Miscellaneous Writings, Chiefly on Medical Subjects (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854), by Jacob Bigelow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Warfare in the Human Body: Essays on Method, Malignity, Repair and Allied Subjects (New York: E. P. Dutton Co., c1921), by Morley Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Modern Inquiries: Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1867), by Jacob Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Elephant Man, and Other Reminiscences (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1923), by Frederick Treves (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hell in an Uproar: A Satyr, Occasioned By a Scuffle Which Lately Happened Between the Lawyers and Physicians for Superiority (London: Printed for T. Watkins, 1750), by Richard Burridge (page images at NIH)
• Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle (Gutenberg text)
• Curiosities of Medical Experience (second edition; London: R. Bentley, 1839), by J. G. Millingen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ye Medical Student's Primer (1901), by Martha Tracy (page images at Drexel)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.