Case Histories

Casebooks: The casebooks in this subseries contain comprehensive patient medical records, which vary slightly by book. They provide information about the patients' condition, and what treatment doctors tried on them. Casebook 6 is less detailed, and contains monthly records of admissions and discharges. Casebook 3 contains autopsy reports for patients who died. There is no casebooks numbered 1.

Case histories: These are standardized forms which record physical examinations of patients: respiratory, digestive, nervous and muscular system all surveyed. They also include a history of patients during infancy, childhood, youth, symptoms, duration, etc. Includes what seem to be graphs charting patients' urine samples. Also includes letters about patients by doctors or family members, which often contain the patients' medical histories, as well as one letter by a patient herself (box 20).