Medical Research Division, Edgewood Arsenal

Leitch, J.L., T.H. Ginsburg, and M.E. Price. 1941. MD(EA) Memorandum Report 18. Purification of Water Contaminated with Lewisite. A Toxicological Study of Water Containing 10 ppm and 16 ppm of Lewisite. Medical Research Division, Edgewood Arsenal, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Edgewood, Md. 

Armstrong GC, Wells HB, Wilkes AE, Moulton CH (1928) Comparative test with mustard gas (HS) lewisite (M-1), methyldicloroarsine (MD) and methyldifluorarsine (MD2) in 75 mm shell fired statically in collaboration with chemical division. EAMRD 95. U.S. Department of the Army, Medical Research Division, Edgewood Arsenal, MD. 

Tharp B, Ketchum JS. Performance effects of finphenazine, haloperidol Clinical Research Division, Medical research Lahoratories, Edgewood Arsenal, MD, Unpnhlished manuscript, 1965. 

For a decade and a half following World War I there had been a Medical Division in OC CWS. But in 1932 General Gilchrist had eliminated this division, and thereafter CWS and the Medical Department maintained co-ordination solely through the medical research group at Edgewood Arsenal. Just prior to World War II, increased emphasis began to be placed on the medical aspects of gas warfare, and a Committee on the Treatment of Gas Casualties was set up within the National Research Council. Later, when the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) was activated, the work was also carried on by its various committees and subcommittees. The chemical warfare functions of the National Research... 

The CWS and NDRC maintained liaison through one or more CWS officers from 1941 onward, reinforced by NDRC members in the Office of the Chief and at Edgewood Arsenal from 1942 onward. By August 1942 the volume of university-industrial assistance had reached the point where the CWS and NDRC had to form a joint Technical Committee to plan and allocate all research and development carried out by military and nonmilitary groups. On this committee were the chief of the Technical Division, the director of the Office of Assistant Chief for Materiel, the chairman of the NDRC, and the chairmen of Divisions 9 and 10, NDRC. The chief of the Medical Division joined the committee in August 1943-... 

A. M. Ginzler, O. Bodansky, R. L. Feguson, B. J. Jandorf and C. L. Boyers, The pathology of CK [cyanogen chloride] by inhalation. Medical Division Report No. 34, Medical Research Laboratory of the Medical Division, Office of the Chief, CWS, Edgewood Arsenal, MD, 19 June 1945. 

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