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SZ/OEMU/2/19/3/4 - [Letter, J.F. Fulton to SZ, 17/2/42]

Reference code
SZ/OEMU/2/19/3/4
Level of description
Item
Title
[Letter, J.F. Fulton to SZ, 17/2/42]
Date/s
1942
Quantity & Format
1 leaf Letters (typescript)
Personal name
Burns, B. Delisle
Black, A. N.
Wilson, [---?], (mentor of George R. Callender)
Callender, George R.
Subject
Wound ballistics
Decompression (Physiology)
Creator
Fulton, John F.
Creator
Zuckerman, Solly, 1904-1993
Administrative/Biographical history
recipient
Scope and content
Fulton acknowledges receipt of a paper by Black, Burns, [and SZ?] on the wounding mechanism of high velocity missiles. He mentions having met Dr Wilson, the mentor of Colonel Callender who had taken over the editorship of the second volume of the Medical History of the War. Fulton writes from hospital. He had plugged a bronchus in an attempt to open a eustachian tube, while observing a simulated parachute jump in a decompression chamber.
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