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lewisite an arsenical mustard; used as a war gas. The possibility of arsenic poisoning in animals by this means now seems remote. The chief claim for the product in recent times is the production of an antidote which has come into general use for poisoning by metals; known as British antilewisite or BAL. |
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The exclusion criteria for experimental and epidemiologic studies were a) no original research (reviews, editorials, nonresearch letters); b) studies performed only on people with diabetes, including case reports; c) lack of outcomes related to diabetes or glucose metabolism; d) no data on arsenic exposure; e) experiments in nonmammalian cells, or noncellular experiments; f) animal studies administering a single dose of arsenic; and g) culture cell experiments using lewisite or oxophenylarsine. Lewisites such as Martin Kramer, author of Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America (a fierce post-9/11 attack on Bulliet) and other prominent scholars such as Robert Wood of the University of Chicago, suggested that most academic Arabists were apologists for Islamic radicalism. Military records show that mustard gas, a chemical agent called lewisite and tear gas were sent to Edwards - then known as Muroc - during the years the yard was in operation. |
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