Diary

Autobiographical diary, chiefly personal, of a physician. The narrative begins when Gardiner, at 16, started studying medicine in Newburgh. Gardiner gives the titles of the specific medical books he reads over the next 3 years. Also interspersed among personal notes of his life are brief accounts of medical procedures.

Mimeograph copy, signed by Franklin Martin, inscribed to a Mr. Hubbard and including signature of Isabelle Martin.

Dr. Edmund Abbott, 1857-1933, a third-generation physician, was born in Winterport, ME. He graduated from Maine State College in Orono and the Medical Department of the University of New York. He continued his father's private practice in Winterport from 1879 to 1887. He then relocated to Providence, RI, where he practiced until his retirement in 1920.

Dr. Henry Harkins was with the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Washington from 1947. The collection contains correspondence, biographical data, research studies, typescripts of talks and lectures, operative records and case reports, memoranda, diaries, reprints and printed matter, certificates and diplomas, and photographs.

An account of the 1st California volunteers under Colonel James H. Carlton, Major U.S. 6th cavalry as they marched from Fort Wright, California to the Rio Grande river at Fort Thorn, New Mexico from January to September 1862.

Contains case reports kept by Major Pool while on active duty with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during the spring and summer of 1918.

When John Shaw Billings left the Army in 1895 to become first a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and shortly thereafter the director of the New York Public Library, he took with him many of his personal and professional papers.

Telegraph transcripts of military orders and directives sent and received by Letterman during his Civil War service. The diaries describe a trip from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Union, N.M. and back. Evidence indicates that the diary was not kept by Letterman.

Includes biographical data and typescript of diary. McPhail was assistant surgeon, U.S. Army. Diary records his journey leading to the signing of a treaty with the Comanches.

Contains correspondence, diaries, printed matter, clippings, orders, printed ephemera, and patient record books and transfer cards, all relating to Base Hospital No. 4 (Lakeside Unit, Cleveland, Ohio and Rouen, France) during World War I.