Terror weapons : the British experience of gas and its treatment in the First World War / Edgar Jones.
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War in History Vol 21 No 3, 2014, pages 355-375 (53)Summary: In the great war toxic gas caused high rates of casualties rather than deaths and it is this, together with uncertainty and surprise, which is said to have contributed to the damaging impact of such weapons. This article considers how military medicine coped with both physical and psychological effects drawig on experiences learned from shell-shock.
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In the great war toxic gas caused high rates of casualties rather than deaths and it is this, together with uncertainty and surprise, which is said to have contributed to the damaging impact of such weapons. This article considers how military medicine coped with both physical and psychological effects drawig on experiences learned from shell-shock.
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