Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare

Vedder, E.B., Walton, D.C. (1925). The Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare. Williams Wilkins Company, Baltimore. 

McNamara, B.P. (1960). Medical aspects of chemical warfare. US Army Chemical Research and Development Laboratories, Army Chemical Center, Edgewood Arsenal, MD, 7-28. 

Vedder, Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare, Baltimore, 1925, 158. 

If any one has the slightest doubt ou this point, he has only to take one glance at the horrible results of nonfatal gunshot w ounds, as illustrated on Plate 1 of Colonel Vedder s book, The Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare V... 

Vedder, E. B. (1925). The medical aspects of chemical warfare (pp. 125—166). Baltimore Williams Wilkins. 

Vedder EB. Vesicants. In The Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare. Vedder EB, ed. Baltimore, MD, Williams Wilkins, 1925, pp. 125-166. 

Ireland MW (1926). Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare. The Medical Department of the US Army in World War 1, Volume XIV. Washington, DC, USA Government Printing Office. 

This chapter focuses primarily on the development of chemical and biological weapons and countermeasures to them, thus setting the stage for Chapter 3, Historical Aspects of Medical Defense Against Chemical Warfare, which concentrates on medical aspects of chemical warfare. To avoid excessive duplication of material, protective equipment of the modern era is illustrated in Chapter 16, Chemical Defense Equipment.—Eds.]... 

Council and the Office of Scientific Research and Development overlapped, and by the spring of 1943 it was evident that there was need for a staff officer in the CWS who would co-ordinate all functions having to do with the medical aspects of chemical warfare. After consultation among the Secretary of War, The Surgeon General, and the Chief, CWS, Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads of the Memorial Hospital, New York City, a renowned medical administrator, was selected for the post. Dr. Rhoads was commissioned as a colonel in the Medical Corps and served as chief of the Medical Division until 18 April 1945 when he was succeeded by Col. John R. Wood, Medical Corps, who served until the close of the war. 

Medical aspects of chemical warfare. Textbooks of military medicineTuorinsky, S.D., Lenhart M.K. (Eds.), 2008. Office of The Surgeon General US Army, Falls Church Virginia and Borden Institute WRAMC, Washington, DC, USA. 

FIGURE 36.1 General mechanistic pathways involved in the toxicity of inhaled chlorine following exposure. IL interleukin TNF tumor necrosis factor V/Q ventilation profusion ratio. Source Reprinted from Textbooks of Military Medicine Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare,... 

Hilmas, C.J., Smart, J.K., Hill, B.A., 2008. History of chemical warfare. In Tourinsky, S. (Ed.), Textbook of Military Medicine Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare Office of the Surgeon General, Borden Institute, Washington, DC, pp. 9-76. 

Hurst, C.G., Petrali, J.P., Barillo, D.J., et al, 2008. Vesicants Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare. Office of the Surgeon General and US Army Medical Department Center and School, Ft. Sam Houston, XX, pp. 259-309. 

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