Janus: Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Needham/NRI2/SCC2/319 contains:
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21	Copy of a summary prepared by Lu Gwei-Djen of «??????» [Chung I Ming Tzhu Tshu Tien / Zhong Yi Ming Ci Ci Dian], (Hong Kong, 1964), and preparatory notes
22	Photocopied pages from Robert Boyle, 'Some Considerations touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Natural Philosophy,..', (Oxford, 1663), about medicine in China
23	Photocopy of the contents pages of the 'Chinese Medical Journal', Volume 4, Numbers 4 and 5
24	Set of photographs of scroll paintings of famous Chinese physicians
25	Letter from G. Pontecorvo of Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories, London, about the incidence of cancer of the oesophagus in Honan Province, China, and copy of Joseph Needham's reply
26	Correspondence with Dr. J. D. Swales of the Department of Medicine, University of Manchester, about ancient Chinese references to arterial hypertension
27	Correspondence with Dr. D. G. Beevers of the Medical Research Council Blood Pressure Unit, Glasgow, abut ancient Chinese references to arterial hypertension, and related documents
28	Correspondence with Prof. David Hawkes of Oxford, about the expression ?? [Kan Huo / Gan Huo], and related notes by Lu Gwei-Djen
29	Letter from Prof. W. Bargman of Kiel, Germany, about ivory figures used as aids to diagnosis by physicians in ancient China, and copy of Joseph Needham's reply
30	Copy of «??» [Chien Pao / Jian Bao], the Cambridge Chinese students' newsletter
31	Two pieces of Japanese calligraphy relating to medicine

Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title	Correspondence with Dr. D. G. Beevers of the Medical Research Council Blood Pressure Unit, Glasgow, abut ancient Chinese references to arterial hypertension, and related documents
Reference	SCC2/319/27
Creator	Beevers, D. G.; Needham, Joseph.
Covering Dates	18 Sep. 1974–1 May 1975
Extent and Medium	12 pieces; Paper

Content and context

The correspondence comprises 2 letters from Beevers; copy of 1 letter from Joseph Needham. One of Beevers letters also discusses the relationship of kidney disease to hypertension.

The related documents comprise a reprint of an article by the MRC Blood Pressure Unit entitled 'Is Low-Renin Hypertension a stage in the development of essential hypertension or a diagnostic entity?', ('The Lancet', 8 March 1975); reprint of an article by the MRC Blood Pressure Unit entitled 'Abnormal Relation between Exchangeable Sodium and the Renin-Angiotensin System in Malignant Hypertension and in Hypertension with Chronic Renal Failure', ('The Lancet', 31 March 1973); reprint of an article by the MRC Blood Pressure Unit entitled 'Sodium and the Renin-Angiotensin System in Essential Hypertension and Mineralcortoid Excess', ('The Lancet', 10 August 1974); reprint of an article by the MRC Blood Pressure Unit entitled 'Hypertension in Chronic Renal Failure: An Abnormal Relation Between Sodium and the Renin-Angiotensin System', ('The American Journal of Medicine', September 1973); hand-written chart prepared by Beevers showing the relationship between renal hypertension and hypertension due to sodium.

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