Illustration of a World War One soldier with blistering and redness of the buttocks after sitting on ground contaminated by mustard gas poison. Exposure to mustard gas, a chemical warfare agent, can cause blistering of the skin and mucous membrane on contact. Mustard gas also causes coughing and shortness of breath in the short term. It also has long term effects such as mouth, throat and skin cancer as well as leukaemia. The use of chemical weapons in the First World resulted in 90, 000 deaths and more than 1.3 million casualties. Illustration from An Atlas of Gas Poisoning, 1918. | |
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