title: Mass deaths by gas or chemical poisoning. A historical perspective.
abstract: This review chronicles the characteristics of deliberate and accidental mass poisonings that occurred in World Wars I and II, in Bhopal, and in other historical cases up to and including modern wars. It also considers approaches to the investigation of such cases from the medicolegal as well as general standpoints.
authors.affiliation: Milton Helpern International Center of Forensic Sciences, Wichita State University, Kansas.
authors.forename: W G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Eckert
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational; D002618:Chemical Warfare / Q000266:history*; D003485:Cyanates / Q000506:poisoning; D004190:Disasters / Q000266:history; D005060:Europe; D005739:Gas Poisoning / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D017953:Isocyanates
chemical_list: D003485:Cyanates; D017953:Isocyanates; C008461:methyl isocyanate