National Taiwan University Hospital has a collection of three different sizes of note cabinets. These early wooden furniture were mostly made of oak or cypress, which are sturdy, durable, and resistant to insects. They are still well preserved today. The one in front of you is a medium-sized cabinet with 40 drawers. It was often placed in professors' laboratories in the past to store patient notes, medical information or pathological sections, etc.

The note record contains important information such as medical history and test results. The resident doctor will write it first and then report the patient's condition to the professor to facilitate the decision on treatment during rounds. For the convenience of classification, each drawer is labeled. For example, one drawer is labeled "Tropical Ophthalmology", which was the name of the department that specialized in studying tropical diseases at the time.

Interestingly, many of the medical records on the old notes were written in German. This is because Japanese medicine at the time was deeply influenced by Germany, and many professors had studied in Germany, so they were accustomed to recording medical records or prescribing in German.