 | Will Irwin - War - 1921 - 192 pages
...manufacturing for the camx paign of 1919 our Lewisite gas.) It was invisible; it was a sinking gas, which would search out the refugees of dugouts and cellars ; if...brought almost certain death. It was inimical to all cell-life, animal or vegetable. (Masks alone were of no use against it. ) Further, it had fifty-five... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - Great Britain - 1922 - 908 pages
...ingenuity solved the problem. . . . [The Lewisite gas] was invisible ; it was a sinking gas, which would search out the refugees of dugouts and cellars ; if...once — and it killed not only through the lungs. Whereever it settled on the skin, it produced a poison which penetrated the system and brought almost... | |
 | Kirby Page - Reconstruction (1914-1939) - 1923 - 228 pages
...has described our own Lewisite gas as follows: "It was invisible; it was a sinking gas, which would search out the refugees of dugouts and cellars; if...brought almost certain death. It was inimical to all cell-life, animal or vegetable. Masks alone were of no use against it. Further it had fifty-five times... | |
 | John Thomas Greenan, Albert Barrett Meredith - Economics - 1924 - 532 pages
...of 1919 our Lewisite gas. It was invisible; it was a sinking gas which would search out the refuges of dugouts and cellars; if breathed, it killed at...penetrated the system and brought almost certain death. . . . Masks alone were of no use against it. An expert has said that a dozen Lewisite air bombs of... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1924 - 322 pages
...manufacturing for the campaign of 1919 our Lewisite Gas. It was invisible, a sinking gas, which would search out the refugees of dug-outs and cellars; if breathed it killed at once. Wherever it settled on the skin, it produced a poison which brought almost instant death. Masks alone... | |
 | Dominick Jenkins - History - 2002 - 332 pages
...of \w our lewisite p, It was invisible; it was a sinking gas, which would search out the refugees ol dugouts and cellars; if breathed it killed at once - and it killed not only through the lungs. Whenever it settled on the skin, it produced a poison which penetrates the system and brought almost... | |
 | P. D. Smith - History - 2007 - 588 pages
...war Irwin warned the American public what the effects of Lewisite would be in a future conflict: 119 it was invisible; it was a sinking gas, which could...dugouts and cellars; if breathed, it killed at once . . . Wherever it settled on the skin, it produced a poison which penetrated the system and brought... | |
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It was invisible; it was a sinking gas, which would search out the refugees of dugouts and cellars ; if breathed, it killed at once — and it killed not only through the lungs. Wherever it settled on the skin, it produced a poison which penetrated the... 