A Book of Medical Discourses, in Two Parts

by Rebecca Lee Crumpler

The following pages contain a few simple appeals to common sense, and are addressed to mothers, nurses, and women generally. All honor is due to a far-seeing legislation which has recognized the importance of fitting woman for the great and natural office of nurse, or doctress of medicine; for by it facilities are offered to each member of a commun..

Apples in Appealing Ways [1951]

by Mary T. Swickard

Almost everyone enjoys apples. And there are so many ways to use apples that a family need never tire of them.This leaflet is designed to supplement the better-known apple recipes given in many cook books. You will find here some new apple adventures and some variations on favorite ways of using the fruit. Recipes calling for applesauce and apple j..

Jackson's Gymnastics for the Fingers and Wrist

by Edwin Ward Jackson

The subject of this little work develops, on anatomical and physiological principles, a system of Gymnastics for the Fingers and Wrist, the object of which is—, to lay a solid and scientific foundation for the acquisition of technical skill in the fingers and wrist, as applied to the playing on musical instruments and to finger-work generally.For a..

Adolescence

by Stephen Paget

Shall we therefore put this word back in the Latin dictionary, and speak not of adolescence but of youth? But the word youth hardly takes into account the bodily changes which occur between childhood and adult life. We are concerned here with the schoolroom years, the threshold years, say, from 14 to 18. All of us, when we think seriously about boy..