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State and treatment of illness following the birth of a baby. Taking oil in an attempt to relive bowel distress.

Letter to the editor of the National Gazette. Writes on the foundation of The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, its principles, and its reception in Europe.

Details of trying to send letters to Madame de Malleveault in the West Indies. Supports taking a trip to France for health reasons. Change in climate "fortifies a constitution and gives new vigour."

Comments on the doctor's recommendation of using morphine for the recipient's recurring headaches.

Draft constitution of the Washington Medical Society, laying out rules of governance and calling members to take memorandum of extraordinary cases and discoveries.

Recipes for an ointment and to relieve stomach pain.

“Treatment of the Cholera.” Describes symptoms, treatments, and recipes for medicine. Incomplete and in two hands.

Recipe for medicinal tea to treat the ague, made from bark and roots. Includes directions on how frequently to drink the medicine.

Poem about how Gardiner was a boon to their health and soul.

Hopeful that Charlotte is in better health, and notes his own recovery from a neurological disorder. Still suffering from indigestion, and describes the actions necessary to eat due to “not being able to masticate my food properly for want of teeth.” Comments on the woman he had been boarding with, having to move out as she came near “her confinement” and his prejudices against the Welsh. Discussion of unemployment, separation, and depression. First page includes a black mourning border.