Cocoanut Grove injuries
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Title
Cocoanut Grove injuries
Subject
Cannon, Bradford
Photographs
Surgery, Plastic
Description
On November 28, 1942 the Cocoanut Grove, a nightclub in Boston's South End caught on fire. There were nearly one thousand people crammed inside and over five hundred of them died. Though Dr. Cannon was drafted earlier in 1942, his induction was delayed so that he could treat victims of the fire. Dr. Cannon was given the task of treating 10 survivors with major burns. This enabled him to apply the lessons learned in the burn study conducted with Oliver Cope. These photographs illustrate some of the injuries that Dr. Cannon treated.
Abstract
Photographs of burn treatments from Procedures in Rehabilitation of the Severely Burned (in the Cocoanut Grove Disaster), from The Annals of Surgery, v. 17 no. 6, June 1943
Creator
Cannon, Bradford
Date Created
1943 June
Rights
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Access Rights
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Is Part Of
Bradford Cannon papers, 1923-2003. H MS c240. Box 7, folder 91.
References
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Format
image
Extent
1 plate
Type
still image
Identifier
DigID0002682
Provenance
Gift of Bradford Cannon, M.D. to the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 2001.
Files
Citation
Cannon, Bradford, “Cocoanut Grove injuries,” OnView: Digital Collections & Exhibits, accessed June 3, 2023, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/12819.
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