The Medical Aspects of Gas Warfare, WWI. 1. Lacrimators: (eye irritants and "tear gases") such as Benzylbromide. 2. Sternutators: (nasal irritants, "sneeze gases," "vomiting gases"), such as Diphenylchlorarsine. Sternutator gases were mixed with the other, more lethal, gases in order to interfere with the men wearing their protective gas masks.. 3. Lung irritants: (suffocants, respiratory irritants) Chlorine, Phosgene, carbon oxychloride, chlormethylchlorformate, bromacetone, chloropicrin. 4. The following descriptions of the medical effects of Gas Warfare have been extracted from "The Medical Department of the United States in the World War", Volume XIV. Editor. A Description of the Medical Effects of the Various Gases used during WW1. The Pathological effects of Gas Warfare An account of the general pathological findings in 107 fatal gas cases, subjected to postmortem examination during 1918. The Pathology of Mustard Gas The detailed post mortem examination reports of twenty five men who suffered fatal exposure to this gas..
History - World Wars: Shell Shock during World War One. The Medical Front, WWI. Chemical Warfare and Medical Response During World War I. War and medicine. British Sign Language description Audio description Hippocrates is quoted as saying that ‘war is the only proper school for a surgeon’. Certainly, medical services have been associated with the military since the days of Ancient Greece. This relationship declined in the Middle Ages, but after a radical reorganisation of medicine during the 1700s the links between the two grew stronger with each passing year. War and new jobs in medicine There is much debate about how much influence war and medicine have had on each other. The human suffering caused by war War causes distress, displacement and death. Soldiers and disease Until the 1900s, wars impacted on soldiers more than the civilian population. New weapons, new wounds in the 1500s By the 1500s and 1600s guns and cannons replaced swords and spears, presenting army surgeons with new types of wounds.
Developments in treatments through war The First World War: disease and developments Women in the First World War The impacts of war.