Gas Disease Special in Chinese Medical Journal and Lester Institute of Medical Research

Abstract

In the September of 1937, there was a special issue named Military Gas Disease Prevention and Simple Therapy published in Chinese Medical Journal. The special issue included chemical composition of gas, gas classification, vesiculation gas, other poisons, treatment of victims, emergency services, etc. The special issue was published at the time when Japan began its full-scale invasion of China, and during that time, Japan sent some of its chemical forces to Shanghai to cooperate with the Japanese army in using chemical weapons during the Battle of Shanghai. The author of this special issue was the Department of Pathology of the Lester Institute of Medical Research. Under the auspices of the heritage of the British Christian and architectural engineer Lester-Lester Trust, the Lester Institute of Medical Research was established in 1932. The gas disease special and related rescue work done by Lester Institute of Medical Research made an important contribution to the medicine, military medicine and national defense medicine of China during the wartime and even when and after the People's Republic of China was found.