C12.1_001440 Anti Gas Ointment

Item Reference: 001440
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Empty, oblong, tin, badly rusted, with worn and patchy instructions printed on lid. Would have previously contained eight lead tubes of anti-gas ointment designed to be applied to the skin as an antidote to mustard gas and lewisite
Date: c. 1941
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Rusty tin
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Interior of rusty tin
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