SZ/OEMU/21/3/13-18 - Observations on So-Called Blast Concussion, 20/11/41

Reference code

SZ/OEMU/21/3/13-18

Level of description

Item

Title

Observations on So-Called Blast Concussion, 20/11/41

Date/s

1941

Quantity & Format

5 leaves

Subject

Brain -- Concussion
Head -- Wounds and injuries

Creator

Zuckerman, Solly, 1904-1993

Creator

Blake, Pamela M.,

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Creator

Douglas, J. W. B.

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

OEMU Report No. 30a

OEMU Report No. 30b

B.P.C. 147/W.S.12

The report denies the existence of blast concussion. Only in victims where blast has produced more severe, even fatal, head injuries is concussion evident. If an explosion is not strong enough to cause serious head injury it cannot cause concussion. The paper suggests the term blast concussion be abandoned.

Report written by SZ Blake, and Douglas.

Six copies. [SZ/OEMU/21/3/16-18] entitled `Observations on So-Called Blast Cerebral-Concussion' and numbered 30b.

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
  - SZ/OEMU/21 - [OEMU. Medical Research Council Military Personnel Research Committee, Sub-Committee on Weapons (Biological Assay)]
    - SZ/OEMU/21/3 - [OEMU. MRC Sub-Committee on Weapons. Reports and Memoranda]
      - SZ/OEMU/21/3/13-18 - Observations on So-Called Blast Concussion, 20/11/41

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