Notes on surgery by Professor J. W. Wright, M.D., University of N.Y., Winter session, 1884-1855

The collection contains one volume of George O. Caldwell's student notes, 1884-1885, on the surgical lectures of J. Williston Wright in the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York (pp. 1-106), with notes on materia medica (pp. 108-134), and an 1887 hospital formulary of 307 recipes (pp. 135-232), probably used at the Female Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. Also included are nine letters, 1891-1894, from Caldwell to his fiancee, Annie C. Roche, written while Caldwell was on the staff of the New York City Asylum for the Insane at Central Islip. The letters concern his experiences on the staff of the asylum, the treatment of insane patients, and personal matters.