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• The Use of the Physical and Social Environment of the General Hospital for Therapeutic Purposes (Newer Dimensions of Patient Care p1; New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1961), by Esther Lucile Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the Sick-Room: Essays (second American edition; Boston: W. Crosby, 1845), by Harriet Martineau, contrib. by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (page images at Google)
• Life in the Sick-Room: Essays by an Invalid (second edition; London: E. Moxon, 1844), by Harriet Martineau (page images at Google)

• When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families (2003), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Love for a Deaf Rebel: Schizophrenia on Bowen Island (print, ebook, and audio editions; c2021), by Derrick King (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Mrs. Gailey (c1951), by Sheila Kaye-Smith (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (as serialized in Weird Tales, 1941), by H. P. Lovecraft, illust. by Harry Ferman
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at Standard Ebooks
• The Invisible Man (New York: Pocket Books, 1957), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Näkymätön Mies (The Invisible Man in Finnish; 1922), by H. G. Wells, trans. by Aino Tuomikoski (Gutenberg text)
• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (multiple editions)
• The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, by H. G. Wells
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (London: Macmillan, 1924), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emoji Dick, by Herman Melville, ed. by Fred Benenson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Florentine Dagger: A Novel for Amateur Detectives (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Ben Hecht, illust. by Wallace Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hero (included on the Ghost Baen CD image), by John Ringo and Michael Z. Williamson
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 162 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 162 MB

• A Guernsey Lily, or, How the Feud Was Healed: A Story for Girls and Boys (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1881), by Susan Coolidge, illust. by Kate Greenaway (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bishop's Shadow, by Ida Treadwell Thurston, illust. by M. Eckerson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Cherry Tree (London et al.: Pickering and Inglis, ca. 1901), by Amy Le Feuvre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dickory Dock, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The End of a Coil (London: J. Nisbet and Co., ca. 1880), by Susan Warner (Gutenberg text)
• "Sister": A Chronicle of Fair Haven (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by Evelyn Everett-Green (page images at Florida)
• Twenty Minutes Late (c1893), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sick-Room Thoughts and Gleanings (Saint John, N.B.: Daily Telegraph Book and Job Press, 1892), by Maggie P. Anderson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together With Death's Duel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1959), by John Donne, contrib. by Izaak Walton (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, by John Donne (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)

• The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, by Jeremy Taylor (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (with updated text; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1876), by Jeremy Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Illness and the Limits of Expression (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Kathlyn Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the Ward (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c1962), by Rose Laub Coser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evolution of Sickness and Healing (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Horacio Fabrega (HTML at UC Press)

• HIV-Negative: How the Uninfected Are Affected by AIDS (1995), by William I. Johnston (HTML at std.com)

• Alcoholics Anonymous ("Big book online"; official online version of the 4th edition of 2001), contrib. by Bill W. (HTML and PDF files at aa.org)
• Understanding and Counseling the Alcoholic (enlarged edition, 1990), by Howard Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)
• Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered From Alcoholism (new and revised edition; New York: Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing, 1955), contrib. by Bill W. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment (Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 2000), by Stanton Peele (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered From Alcoholism (New York: Works Pub. Co., 1947), by Bill W. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than Fourteen Thousand Men and Women Have Recovered From Alcoholism (New York: Works Publishing, 1945), by Bill W. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Nursing the Sick: Practical Information By a Trained Nurse; Directions for Amateur Nursing At Home (Montreal: Davis & Lawrence, 1897) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Directions for Cooking by Troops, in Camp and Hospital, Prepared for the Army of Virginia, and Published by Order of the Surgeon General; With Essays on "Taking Food", and "What Food" (Richmond: J. W. Randolph, 1861), contrib. by Florence Nightingale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Food for the Sick and How to Prepare It; With a Chapter on Food for the Baby (Louisville: J. P. Morton and Co., 1900), by Edwin Charles French (page images at Cornell)
• A Handbook of Invalid Cooking: For the Use of Nurses in Training-Schools, Nurses in Private Practice, and Others Who Care for the Sick (New York: The Century Co., 1898), by Mary A. Boland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A War Cookery Book for the Sick and Wounded (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1914), ed. by Jessie M. Laurie (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Woman Suffrage Cook Book (second edition; Boston: "Country Store", 1890), ed. by Hattie A. Burr (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)

• Arkansas Diet Manual (1950), by Arkansas State Board of Health and Arkansas Dietetic Association, ed. by Geraldine Waggoner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Diet System (revised edition of "Diet and Disease"; Washington: Washington College Press, 1943), by Irwin D. Richardson and Maggie G. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strong Medicine (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1962), by Blake F. Donaldson, contrib. by Charles Gordon Heyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Outer Space to You (Clarksburg, WV: Saucerian Books, c1959), by Howard Menger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Relation of Alimentation and Disease (New York: J. H. Vail and Co., 1888), by James Henry Salisbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Understand Your Ulcer: A Manual for the Ulcer Patient (with an appendix on diets (based on health understanding of the time); New York: Sheridan House, c1943), by Burrill B. Crohn, contrib. by Sylvia Bayard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Food for the Diabetic: What to Eat and How to Calculate It With Common Household Measures (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Mary Pascoe Huddleson, contrib. by Nellis Barnes Foster (page images at Cornell)

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