Health & Medicine

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This digital collection features selected medications and documents, manuals, and photographs relating to biochemical research and technology, with a focus on 20th-century instrumentation in medical laboratories. Various models of glucose, enzyme, and amino acid analyzers are a few of the instruments documented in these materials.

Start Over Creator Great Britain. Medical Research Committee ✖ Department Library ✖ Format Image ✖ Subject Mustard gas ✖ Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology ✖

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Plate XIII. A. Drawing of the cornea in the acute stage of severe burning. B. Drawing of cornea in the stage of resolution after severe burning.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
- Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
- Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
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Plate XI. A. Severely burned eye in the acute stage. B. Slightly later stage of acute burning.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
- Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
- Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
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Plate X. Microscopic section of human lung from mustard gas poisoning, with death at end of second day (40 hours).
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
- Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
- Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
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Plate XII. A. Stage of resolution after severe burning. B. Late stage of resolution.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
- Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
- Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
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Plate VIII. Brown staining from mustard gas.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing made on the eighteenth day after exposure to gas.
- Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
- Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
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Plate IX. Ulceration of trachea by mustard gas.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing of a trachea at the twelfth day after gassing.
- Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
- Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
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Plate VII. Burning of scrotum and penis by mustard gas.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing made on eleventh day.
- Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
- Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
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Plate V. Erythema of skin from general exposure to the vapour of Yellow Cross substance.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing made on fifth day.
- Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
- Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
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Plate III. Pallid type of asphyxia from phosgene poisoning, with circulatory failure.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing made on second day after gassing.
- Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
- Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
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Plate I. Microscopic section of human lung from phosgene shell poisoning. Death at the nineteenth hour after gassing.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
"The piece of lung shown is almost entirely useless for aeration of the blood."
- Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
- Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
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Plate II. Blue type of asphyxia from phosgene poisoning, with intense venous congestion.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing made early on second day after gassing.
- Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
- Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
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Plate IV. Gangrene of foot caused by vascular thrombosis from chlorine poisoning.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing of foot made on fifth day.
- Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
- Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
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Plate VI. Blistering of buttocks by mustard gas.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing made on eleventh day.
- Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
- Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas

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