| Description | Experimental notes, mostly relating to chemical warfare. Contains tests on hemoglobin (p2), experiments with arsine (p3), chemicals on rabbit skin (p4-7), arsenine on rats (p15-20), tests on coagulation time (p29), effects of ammonium chloride on rats (p40), effect of arsine on pH and volume of urine, injections of chloramine T in saline (p49), calibration of a reversion spectrascope (p55), effect of diet on arsine poisoning (p58-60), effects of chlorination (p73), extraction of W (p76), effect of W on organisms (p80), effect of doryl by inhalation (p82), stability of Wa and haemagglutin (p92), toxicity of Wa in mice (p96), exposure of rabbits to chemical Wa by inhalation (p104), toxicity tests in rats (p126), notes on sulphone derivatives of amino acids (p132), notes on amino derivatives of Vinyl Sulphone (p137), ascorbic acid on rabbit skin (p140), arsine absorption of lungs (p142), effects of phosgene on goat respiration (p144), effects of AITC and dichlorodimethyl ether on eyes (p146-154), references on treating H burns (p159), tests of anticdotal effect of SDDC (p172), sensitivity of the eyes to mustard gas (p174), respiration effects (p186), experiments with Indian ink (p189).
Contains paper on experiment carried out by J H Gaddum, signed by A Fairley, Superintendent of the Physiological Dept, on the usefulness of sodium formaldehyde sulphoxylate in the treatment of hydrogen gas poisoning (between pages 46-47).
Forms for individual rabbits exposed to [arsine] (between pages 46-47).
Letter from R A Peters from the Department of Biochemistry, University Museum, Oxford, to Gaddum, on the connection between arsenicals and -SH compounds (between pages 50-51).
Typescript notes of Gaddum on his visit to Manchester, discussing the feasibility of spreading agents in chemical warfare (between pages 52-53).
Memo and draft on the use of diffusing factor combined with chloramine T in the treatment of H burns (between pages 52-53).
Photograph of test on animal (page 157).
Pencil diagram of apparatus to measure flow of gases (page 176).
Diagram of rabbit-testing apparatus (page 104).
Letter from Francis H Carr of the British Drug Houses Ltd., to Gaddum, advising him how to prepare ricin from castor seeds (between pages 90-91).
Letter from R R Bennett of the British Drug Houses Ltd advising Gaddum on the procedure for defatting castor oil seed (between pages 90-91).
Sets of notes found between the front and back covers were moved to separate files -- see JHG/2/11 and JHG/2/12 respectively. |