Veterans at Risk The Health Effects of Mustard Gas and Lewisite (1993) / Chapter Skim
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B. Excerpt from The Residual Effects of Warfare Gases
B. Excerpt from The Residual Effects of Warfare Gases
Pages 335-337
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SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 1. Mustard gas as used during the World War affected particularly the skin, mucous membrane of the upper portion of the respiratory tract, and the eyes and their appendages.
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2 gave evidence of residual pulmonary tuberculosis following mustard gassing. In these two cases the histories indicate that a quiescent tuberculosis was present at the time of gassing and that, as a result of severe traumatism of the respiratory parenchyma by mustard gas and a lowered resistance, the latent tuberculosis foci became reactivated and a reinfection of the lungs followed.
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Each case must receive individual study for the purpose of establishing the part played by mustard gas in the inception of tuberculosis.
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