Gas casualty treatment kits

The CWS procured more than 10,000 gas casualty treatment kits. The contents of the 1945 kit, representing the best efforts of wartime medical research in the treatment of chemical agent injuries, and containing in lesser or greater quantities the material also found in the first-aid kit and veterinary set, included BAL ointment (for removal of arsenicals from the skin), petrolatum and amyl salicylate (for removal of mustard from the skin), sodium sulamyd (to prevent blister gas eye infection), copper sulfate solution (to remove WP particles from the skin), copper sulfate powder (to replenish solution), sulfadiazine tablets or penicillin (to prevent secondary infection), a floating white soap (for decontamination), BAL eye ointment (for any liquid blister gas contamination of eyes), eye and... 

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