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. 

By Gilbert Gordon, Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, Robert G. Kieffer, Pennwalt Corporation, Pharmaceutical Division, Rochester, New York, and David H. Rosenblatt, Edgewood Arsenal Research Laboratories, Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland.201... 

Pamphlet, Edgewood Arsenal, the Seat of Chemical Warfare, pp. 7-10. (2) Instructions from Chairman CWTC. Principles that Should Govern in the Research and Development of Materiel and Ammunition Pertaining to the Chemical Warfare Service, 30 Mar 22. (3) Maj Earl J. Atkisson, Policy Governing Research and Development, 19 Jul 22. All in CWS 314.7 Early CWS History File. (4) Pamphlet, Procedure in Development, Test and Adoption of Chemical Warfare Material, approved 31 Jul 26, corrected to 29 Aug 27, and revised edition, 6 Sep 29. (5) Pamphlet, Development Procedure, 16 Dec 31, and revised edition, 1 Feb 38. All in CWS Publications File, Technical Library, A CmlC, Md. (6) Rpt of CWS, 1920, p. 29. (7) Rpt of CWS, 1931 (secret supplement), pp. 17-20. (8) Barker, "The Technical Divisions, Edgewood Arsenal. ... 

Hulett, George A. "History of the Research Division at Princeton University", Historical Report No. H-153, Chemical Warfare Service, Edgewood Arsenal Technical Library. 

Chemical Research Division, Chemical Laboratory, Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland 21010. Received October 10, 1972... 

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... 

There was little else that the CWS could have done at this time even had it desired. The government had returned American University to the trustees, and the Research Division of the CWS was busy preparing new laboratories at Edgewood Arsenal and transferring equipment and records. CWS scientists, uncertain of their future, were not disposed to remain, so that between 1 July and 1 November 1919 there was only an average of eighteen technical men to keep the work alive. ... 

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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