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Medicine
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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Historical Medicine Archive: Public Domain Medical and Health Texts
This catalogue brings together 96 public-domain texts where medical practice, daily habits, and social conditions intersect. Four broad subject categories—Medicine, Public Health, Anatomy Physiology, and Nursing Hygiene—overlap to reflect how a single work can speak to clinical care, municipal reform, or personal conduct. Rather than offering a simple list, the archive groups books by theme and provides reading paths that connect them, such as following Benjamin Rush's changing ideas on yellow fever, comparing veterinary manuals for different species, or moving from personal hygiene to urban sanitation. Researchers and casual readers alike can enter through a specific category, a path, or any book's connections.
96 public-domain works111 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
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Public Health
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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Anatomy Physiology
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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Anatomy Physiology — Collection 4
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
Medicine — Editor’s Selection
Newly Catalogued by ULIEC
A practical guide for making pos...
In Medicine
The care of the skin and hair — ...
In Medicine
The works of the highly experien...
In Medicine
Rebecca Jarrett — Edition Insights
In Public ...
Text book of veterinary medicine...
In Nursing...
Lessons from the life of Florenc...
In Public ...
Bodily changes in pain, hunger, ...
In Medicine
An essay on diseases incidental ...
In Medicine
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ULIEC Catalogue describes the overall structure of the digital archive, which includes 96 books, 111 authors, and 4 categories. The archive's contents are kept intact under their management.
