Black, Sir Douglas (Andrew Kilgour)

Lecture notes; annotated edition of Essentials of Fluid Balance; papers on Rothschild Report 1973-1977.

c1960-1991

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The lecture notes are mostly handwritten and some are merely outlines of subjects covered. No attempt has been made to list them in detail, but they have been arranged in subject groups, renal diseases forming by far the largest section. OUTLINE LIST A Lecture notes B Essentials of Fluid Balance C The Rothschild Report

These papers were given by Sir Douglas Black to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in two accessions. Sections A and B were received in October 1982 and Section C in December 1991.

Sir Douglas was Professor of Medicine at Manchester University and Physician at Manchester Royal Infirmary, 1959-1977, and Chief Scientist at the Department of Health and Social Security, 1973-1977. His publications include Sodium metabolism in health and disease (1952), Essentials of fluid balance (4th ed., 1967), The logic of medicine (1968), and Renal disease (1979). The Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine has a copy of the Black Report (1982) on Inequalities in Health, of which Liverpool University Archives holds a typescript with appendices which were not published.

ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE LIST DB Sir Douglas Black DHSS Department of Health and Social Security HMSO Her Majesty's Stationery Office MRC Medical Research Council NHS National Health Service R&D Research and development RCP Royal College of Physicians