MUSTARD GAS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

Mustard Gas and Its Implications.

The Medical Annual, 1940. Bristol: John Wright & Sons, Ltd. Price 20s. The Medical Annual in its 58th year of life maintains the high standard set in previous editions. It is an indispensable book for the busy general practitioner and contains much of interest. The ophthalmic section is by Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, who discusses such subjects as cataract and vitamins, diseases of the cornea, sulp...

Poisoning by "Mustard" Gas

Mustard Gas Induced Ocular Injuries

1 Mustard gas is a lipophilic, highly cytotoxic agent that rapidly penetrates tissue, and the eye is one of the organs mostly affected,[1] but skin, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and renal systems as well as the bone marrow may also be affected.[2] Mustard gas related ocular injuries can be divided into immediate, chronic, and delayed‐onset phases. Acute manifestations of varying degrees, incl...

OBSERVATION AND CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF PATIENTS INJURED WITH MUSTARD GAS

More than five hundred chemically injured patients were admitted to the Labbafi-Nejad Medical Center in Spring of 1984. These patients were of two groups. The majority of patients had extensive skin burns, eye injuries as well as respiratory problems, and a second group of patients suffered mainly from neuromuscular and psychological problems. In this report, clinical manifestation and obs...

SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC AND GAS CHROMATOGRAPHIC METHODS FOR DETECTION AND ASSAY OF MUSTARD GAS

A colorimetric method for detection and assay of mustard gas in urine after addition of thymolphthalein is reported. The detection limit was 80 ng/ml of llrine. Mustard gas could also be detected in urine after extraction with gas chromatography using FID detector. The detection limit was 10 ng/ml. In addition, thiodiglycol, a metabolite of mustard gas, could be converted to mustard with ...