Word: lungful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three weeks ago Publisher Charles C. Thomas of Springfield, Ill. issued 1,500 copies of a small monograph called The Lung by Anatomist William Snow Miller of the University of Wisconsin. Price was $7.50. The issue was sold out in a fortnight and last week zealous doctors offered as high as $50 for a copy. This rare situation in the history of medical publishing was attributable to the fact that in the history of medicine there had never before appeared so thoroughgoing a study of the human lung. Dr. Miller's 20g-page monograph-including an affectionate dedication...
...gases are classified as 1) lacrimators (tear-gas); 2) systemic toxic agents (blood poisons); 3) lung injurants; 4) respiratory irritants; 5) vesicants (blister-producers). As War gases the first two are the least destructive. Tear-gases have some value because very low concentrations force masking, with attendant loss of efficiency and morale; 6,000 tons of lacrimators were used throughout...
...Lung Injurants are gases which cause pulmonary edema, which means that water pours into the lungs, suffocating or "drowning" the victim. Chlorine is a lung injurant. Phosgene (carbonyl chloride) is a much better one, not so irritating at first but ten times more toxic. This gas was first used by the Germans late in 1915 and then adopted by the Allies, while the Germans switched to diphosgene which is less stable than its chemical brother but easier to fill into shells. The phosgenes accounted for 80% of the War's fatal gas casualties. Nevertheless, it had a tell-tale...
Chlorpicrin is a lung injurant which incidentally causes vomiting, strangulation and temporary blindness. It was difficult to guard against chlorpicrin in the War because none of the chemicals except charcoal in the gas-mask canister would remove it from the entering...
...introduced until 1917 and comprised less than 10% of the total gas shells fired in the War. Yet it accounted for 400,000 casualties, which was one-third of the total gas casualties. It took only 60 Ib. of mustard to produce one casualty, as against 230 Ib. of lung injurants and 500 Ib. of high explosive...