[A document by the late Prof. Saburo Matubara, a medico-historical material written in Yiddish]

The late Prof. Saburo Matubara was professor of psychiatry at Kanazawa Medical Academy and later at Kanazawa Medical College (now Kanazawa University Medical School). Among the articles he left, the authors found a document written in Yiddish, which turned out to be a publicity material on prevention and cure of tuberculosis issued in 1907 by the Department of Health, City of New York for Jewish emigrants. As the authors believe this is the first medico-historical material written in Yiddish and found in Japan, its content and its medical, linguistic and historical backgrounds are reviewed. The document suggests the importance of linguistic study on medico-historical materials in multicultural and multilingual society.