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Pandy the Porpoise

Pandy the Porpoise

Pandy, a 273-pound female porpoise, was performing at the Benton Convention Center in 1973 when she became ill. She was transported to North Carolina Baptist Hospital and seen by Dr. James McCormick (not pictured) who was familiar with porpoises because of a grant he had received from the Navy years earlier involving marine biology studies. Pandy was treated, healed, and able to return back to her owner (the man with his hand on the porpoise), Mr. Ralph Quinlan of Lincolnton, NC via a box filled with moist sponge rubber and a wet blanket.

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title
Pandy the Porpoise
publisher
Coy C. Carpenter Library
rightsHolder
Wake Forest University
hasFormat
Photoprint
hasVersion
DF 252
isPartOf
Digital Forsyth NBG Doctors
isReferencedBy
NBG_doc_252
subject
Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works, Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Sources, Digital Forsyth
description
Pandy, a 273-pound female porpoise, was performing at the Benton Convention Center in 1973 when she became ill. She was transported to North Carolina Baptist Hospital and seen by Dr. James McCormick (not pictured) who was familiar with porpoises because of a grant he had received from the Navy years earlier involving marine biology studies. Pandy was treated, healed, and able to return back to her owner (the man with his hand on the porpoise), Mr. Ralph Quinlan of Lincolnton, NC via a box filled with moist sponge rubber and a wet blanket.
identifier
https://www.digitalforsyth.org/jpg/nbg/doc/nbg_doc_00252.jpg, https://www.digitalforsyth.org/jpg/nbg/doc/nbg_doc_00252-th.jpg, https://hdl.handle.net/10339/15104
rights
These images are protected by copyright restrictions. Please contact the owning library (Coy C. Carpenter Library) for more information.
issued
2008-11-07T20:03:36Z
abstract
Published in: Medical Alumni News.
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