Poison gas used to kill rats
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Poison gas used to kill rats
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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A New and Better Use for Poison Gas
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THE poison gas that
gassed the Germans is
now gassing English rats.
It was Captain Eden Rich-
ardson, formerly a gas.
instructor in France,
who first sent poison
gas down rat-holes.
He attached one end
of a rubber tube to a
gas-cylinder, and
stuffed the other end
down a rat-hole. Then
he put on his gas-mask
and turned on the gas.
The rats that were
"not immediately anni-
hilated crawled out in
such a dazed condition
that they were quickly
and easily killed.
Why go to all this trouble
when solid or liquid poison will
work just as well? Because all the
rats in the run will succumb to gas,
Whereas by the other method only those that the poison touches
will die. ‘Then, too, when the gas has passed off the bodies are
not left in a poisonous condition. In fact, experiments have
demonstrated that it is perfectly safe to eat gassed rabbits after
the gas has passed off.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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Western Newspaper Union (image copyright)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-08
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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18
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 95, n. 2, 1919
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