At the Kyoto conference om April 11 Dr. Muntsch told the 2,000 delegates that German scientists had made important discoveries in thei search for an antidote for poison gas.
"After twenty years of hard re-starch we are on the track of a way to. cure the after-effects of poison gas" he said.
No specific therapy is known, he stated, despite the many years of research pursued in Germany and other countries. Scientists recently discovered, however, that poison gas has the same effect on animals as on humans, and this, Dr. Muntsch told the delegates, made it possible for the first time to conduct laboratory experiments, id the experiments had proven that tuberculosis is- not caused by poison gas, but that it becomes more malignant if the patient is gassed. Men who have been gassed cannot be efficient aviators, he di clared. because' they are highly susceptible to changes in atmospheric pressure, which may cause bleeding or stop circulation.
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