EFFECTS OF GAS.
PAINFUL REVELATIONS. BRITISH SOLDIER'S DEATH. •A. and N.Z. LONDON. Aug. 24. The dreadfully long-continued effects of poison gas used in the war were revealed at an inquest concerning the " sudden death of Frederick Crow, agpd 2.7. '' V Deceased ? ,had served in France with ' the King's Royal Rifles. He-, was. gassed "and- was discharged in 1917. The doctor who made a post-mortem examination prior to the inquest deposed that the whole body and scalp were distended and discoloured green, the braiti was soft and of a greenish-grey hue. The lungs were solid and gave off gas when they were cut, as did every organ of the body except the kidneys, which were normal. ' ' ' VWitness said that death was due to dilation of the heart and mitral-valvular disease, due to gas poisoning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19416, 26 August 1926, Page 9
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