Cannon, Bradford papers, 1923-2003. H MS c240

Cannon, Bradford papers, 1923-2003. H MS c240

Bradford Cannon (b. 1907) SB, 1929, Harvard College; MD, 1933, Harvard Medical School, was a plastic surgeon and Clinical Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, whose contributions to plastic surgery include improvements to burn treatments and reconstructive techniques. Cannon was instrumental in making plastic surgery a respected discipline within the Boston medical community and established a formal plastic surgery residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His research and publications include original work on wound healing, soft tissue and bony reconstruction, tissue transplantation, and radiation injuries.

Contains correspondence, notes, reports, memoranda, scrapbooks, and photographs from Cannon's educational and administrative activities, professional relationships, and clinical experiences as a plastic surgeon at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass. Includes correspondence, class notes, photographs from Cannon's activities as a student, faculty member, and clinician at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital; correspondence, annotated meeting programs, notes, drafts, and photographs from Cannon's membership in professional organizations, including the American Association of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons; correspondence, scrapbooks, reports, memoranda, operating notes, brochures, photographs, and slides from Cannon's surgical and administrative activities while at Valley Forge General Hospital; and Cannon family correspondence including his father physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon (1871-1945). Accession 2010-063 (unprocessed) contains photographs of reconstructive surgery performed for war wounded soldiers at Valley Forge General Hospital, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, as well as: notes and manuscripts related to surgical procedures; charcoal and pencil sketches of doctors, operating rooms, and patients; histiology drawings; correspondence and associated research files for Cannon's 1956 trip to the Marshall Islands regarding atomic bomb fallout on Rongelap and Rongerik; and miscellaneous monographs and publications.