Germany's+Use+of+Chemical+Warfare+in+the+Great+War


 * Germany's use of warfare in the Great War.**


 * They used lachrymators to affect the eyes, sternutators caused sneezing, vomiting, nausea, and respiratory irritation, and they used asphyxiators to allow fluid into the lungs and prevent oxygen from reaching the blood. They mostly used mustard, chlorine, and phosgene.**




 * An Allied nurse stated:
 * "I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case - to say nothing of ten cases - of mustard gas in its early stages - could see the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great mustard-coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes . . .all sticky and stuck together, always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying that their throats are closing and they know they will choke." ** **