The Chemical and Biological Consideration of Atmospheric Carcinogenic Agents

Carcinogenic Chemical Agents *

Cancer is a disease which has long been shrouded in mystery, but our knowledge of its intricacies has been extended in numerous directions by investigations carried on in all parts of the world by workers in many branches of science. Yet it remains true that in general we are not able to explain the origin of cancer, and the methods of treatment at present available are pitifully inadequate. Th...

Chemical Compounds as Carcinogenic Agents

A review of the progress made in the study of the carcinogenic properties of chemical compounds, incorporating literature published during the triennial period between the First and Second International Cancer Congresses, was presented to the Second International Congress in Brussels, in September 1936, and was subsequently reprinted with an addendum covering most of the literature published up...

Physical and chemical agents and carcinogenic risk.

History of chemical and biological warfare agents.

Chemical and biological warfare agents constitute a low-probability, but high-impact risk both to the military and to the civilian population. The use of hazardous materials of chemical or biological origin as weapons and for homicide has been documented since ancient times. The first use of chemicals in terms of weapons of mass destruction goes back to World War I, when on April 22, 1915 large...

[Decontamination of chemical and biological warfare agents].

Chemical and biological warfare agents (CBWA's) are diverse in nature; volatile acute low-molecular-weight toxic compounds, chemical warfare agents (CWA's, gaseous choking and blood agents, volatile nerve gases and blister agents, nonvolatile vomit agents and lacrymators), biological toxins (nonvolatile low-molecular-weight toxins, proteinous toxins) and microbes (bacteria, viruses, rickettsiae...