# library.forgemesh.io Health & Medicine Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io Health & Medicine Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a ranked list of up to 1044 public-domain Health & Medicine books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/health-medicine
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-health-medicine-shelf-1d2ba42b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_11krrhNzwTJZYJx7D8_dy

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability library-forgemesh-io-health-medicine-shelf-1d2ba42b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the curated Health & Medicine shelf on the forgemesh library and show me the top 30 public-domain books available?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked catalog of public-domain Health & Medicine texts — especially historical medical literature, surgical manuals, or nursing history — and want drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. Prefer this over a full-text search endpoint when you want to browse the entire subject shelf rather than search for specific passages or keywords.

## Known failure modes

- Limit parameter exceeds maximum of 50 — may return error or cap results at 50
- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient for the $0.003 per-call fee
- Empty or malformed POST body may cause unexpected behavior
- Service unavailability returns a non-200 HTTP error code

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Health & Medicine — 1044 public-domain books including The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2, Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of public-domain Health & Medicine books (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50), including titles such as 'The Life of Florence Nightingale' and surgical manuals, along with drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve the full text of each book.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2",
    "author": "Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir",
    "book_id": 40058,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 39948
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Health & Medicine",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-health-medicine-shelf-1d2ba42b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from library.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/library.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)