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100 1 _aGreat Britain. Medical Research Committee
245 1 3 _aAn atlas of gas poisoning
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-02
508 _aRichard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"An atlas of gas poisoning by Great Britain. Medical Research Committee" is a scientific medical atlas produced in the World War I era. It presents official, instructional illustrations and notes for medical officers on the effects of chemical warfare agents, focusing on phosgene and mustard gas. The likely topic is the pathology, clinical presentation, and practical implications of gas injuries to the lungs, skin, airways, and eyes. The book explains that phosgene, a pulmonary irritant, causes immediate respiratory discomfort followed by delayed but rapidly progressive lung oedema, alveolar rupture, vascular congestion, and small-vessel thrombosis, leading to “blue” or “pallid” asphyxia and early death in severe cases; brief case notes and a lung micrograph demonstrate these changes, with mention of oxygen and venesection as supportive measures. Mustard gas, a vesicant, acts with delayed onset, producing intense conjunctivitis, diffuse skin erythema, blistering, and later brown staining, with particular vulnerability of moist skin areas and the perineum; in the airways it causes sloughing of tracheal and bronchial mucosa, secondary infection, and septic broncho‑pneumonia, while lung sections show bronchiolar necrosis and peribronchial haemorrhage rather than generalised oedema. The atlas also stages ocular burns from acute damage to resolution, noting risks of corneal ulceration and outlining supportive care (early atropine and cleansing, later astringents). Throughout, concise plate descriptions, case sketches, and histology highlight the distinct mechanisms, timelines, complications, and recovery patterns of these two agents. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Medical Research Committee, 1918
653 _aGases, Asphyxiating and poisonous -- War use
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76801
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