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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.

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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
  • Illustrations

    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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