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Written by Soshū Ishi [medical doctor of Sagami no kuni], [and?] Katakura Genshū Shinpo / 片倉元周深甫. This forty-five page manual on pediatrics was written in Shino-Japanese style. There is one illustration of a young male child on page twenty. Page 34 has come loose from the binding.

This notebook is organized into eleven chapters on hematology, the science of blood. Includes readings of a man's pulse taken three times a day over five days. Written by Shingū Seki Ryōtei / 新宮碩凉庭. "Kaei 2 [1849] April by Seki 石." A note reads, "Karan reki [Western calendar] 1748."

One of the longest notebooks at 154 pages, covering 56 illnesses and their symptoms, treatments, and medicinal herbs. There are dried leaves laid into the folds of pages 60 and 94. In the last page an explanation reads: "Shiken hō is said to be written by Kyōto's Doctor Fukui. This book is of Kashū Kanazawa Yoshioka Jōhei's [Ishikawa prefecture, Kanazawa, Yoshioka Johei] in which the illnesses are arranged by categories, then treatment methods are listed under each illnesses so it will be useful for searching. Thus it is not the same book as Fukui's original book. But since we couldn't find any better one, I copied this one here." "Bunsei 12 [1829] Jan. at Shunrinken new school by Sen Chōsai."

Cushing is posed while drawing with a pen.