This collection contains a letter from a medical student in New York City to his girlfriend. A.L.s.; writer communicates advice to his girlfriend, whom he knew from Ann Arbor, Michigan, from Prof. Markoe [Thomas M.. Markoe of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia College] for treatments for an indolent ulcer; asks her to have her father use his influence to get him acquainted with Prof. J.R. Wood of [Bellevue] College, one of the examiners, to tell of his merits; mentions that "Prof. Dalton [Edward B. Dalton, staff surgeon at Bellevue and Inspector for the Army of the Potomac] kills a dog or two before the class occasionally."

1 unknown (1 sheet)

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