Excerpt from Memorandum on Gas Poisoning in Warfare: With Notes on Its Pathology and TreatmentThe employment of poisonous gases as a means of offensive warfare has made it imperative that medical officers should have some knowl edge oi the action of the various gases that are likely to be met with and of rational lines of treatment which may be adopted in cases of gas poisoning.Poisonous gases have been used in warfare with the intention of putting men out of action, hampering Artillery, preventing supports from advancing, and inspiring general terror, so that an advance may be made with a minimum of opposition and some military advantage secured. Apart from any question of an advance, poisonous gases have been used merely as a means of causing a certain number of casualties on the Opposing side and of inspiring terror.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.