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BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH AT OXFORD UPON MUSTARD GAS

Nature volume 159, pages 149–151 (1947)Cite this article

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CONCURRENTLY with the research upon arsenical vesicants which led to BAL1, a biochemical attempt was initiated at the outbreak of the War in 1939 by the writer and directed in the Biochemical Department, Oxford, for the Ministry of Supply, with the object of finding either a better compound to act as a 'chaser' to follow quickly and to remove unreacted mustard gas in the skin, or an antidote capable of reversing the combination of mustard gas with the skin constituent. This review deals with the salient features of the work of the Oxford sub-group (J. St. L. Philpot, A. G. Ogston, E. R. Holiday and L. A. Stocken) ; for other related work see the recent reviews of M. Dixon and D. M. Needham2, and of A. Gillman and F. S. Phillips3.

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PETERS, R. BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH AT OXFORD UPON MUSTARD GAS. Nature 159, 149–151 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159149a0

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