Soldier undergoing treatment for exposure to a chemical gas agent
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- Title
- Soldier undergoing treatment for exposure to a chemical gas agent
- Description
- A soldier undergoing treatment for exposure to a chemical gas agent. Photo taken in May 1918. The horrors of chemical warfare had never been seen on a battlefield until 1915. Gas was invented (and successfully used) as a terror weapon meant to instill confusion and panic among the enemy prior to an offensive. It was a sort of physiological weapon with the non-lethal tearing agents inflicting as much panic as the dreaded mustard gas.
- Is Part Of
- Base Hospital 21 Photographs and Drawings
- Rights Holder
- Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University in St. Louis
- Site pages
- World War 1
