Abstract
IT is a pleasure to turn to a book dealing with poison gas which has been written by an expert who has had personal experience of it not only in the laboratory and experimental ground, but also on the battlefield itself. Major Sisson held an important appointment in the Gas Directorate of the British Expeditionary Force during the Great War, and he has first-hand knowledge of the practical use of gas and can estimate its probable effects if it is employed against a civil population. His opinions, therefore, should carry weight with the majority of people, who are naturally ill-informed in a matter remote from their ordinary experience and have been grossly misled in the past by sensational writers.
On Guard against Gas:
an Account of the Principles of Gas Warfare and of the Steps to be taken by the ordinary Citizen to defend his Family. By H. A. Sisson. Pp. 91. (London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers), Ltd., n.d.) 2s. net.
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FOULKES, C. On Guard against Gas:. Nature 142, 138 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142138b0
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