These acute gas cases are the most horrifying sight you can imagine; they simply die off in no time at all. They have complete destruction of the alveolar lining of their lungs, the whole chest just full of watery blood.
For the bronchitis which comes afterwards, or which may be induced by a mild dose of gas, one may require any of the bronchitis drugs, and there is nothing peculiar about them, One still meets men who had a very mild dose of gas, perhaps just a little day after day, never enough to knock them out, but whose lungs have never been sound since.
Well, that is the picture of gas cases a I remember them, and these are the drugs that I think you will want to use. A lot of this is fitting the Materia Medica to the pictures I remember, and I do not like doing this; in this class I like to tell you the things I have done, the things I can speak of fro experience, and although these gas cases responded to the different drugs, they were evacuated from the Field ambulance as soon as possible, and one had no chance of seeing them through to a finish.
Fortunately we have not yet had a experience, and I hope we shall not get it, but if we have an idea of the kind of things to look for it may be a help. I can tell you the one side, and I can tell you the other side, but I have not had an opportunity of combing the two. I have seen the gas, and I do know my Materia Medica, but I have not had an opportunity of combining the two and treating the cases to a conclusion and I hope I shall never have to do so. But that is what I shall look if I do see these cases.
He wrote a number of books: Children's Types, Digestive Drugs, Pneumonias
Douglas Borland died November 29, 1960.