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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.

Five ophthalmologist report forms, with section for patient information listing name, residence, age, sex, occupation, diagnosis, referring doctor, O.D.V., O.S.V., and muscle balance. Section for "History, Ophthalmoscopic Examination, &c." includes case notes, illustrations of injured eyes, treatments, and prescriptions. Includes reports for John Banner, an African American porter; John Wissinger, a laborer; Rev. William S. Lowry (b. 1848), an African American minister; Catherine Hart and Mrs. J. Fey, whose occupations were listed as "Wife" and "House" respectively.

Recipes for the treatment of cholera, morbus, croup, chills and fever, vomiting, and upset stomach.