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During the Battle of Flanders in July 1917, German soldiers deployed sulfur mustard-containing artillery shells on unsuspecting British and Canadian troops, marking the first time "mustard gas" had ...

The first record of chemotherapy to treat cancer came from Yale University in the 1940s. Researchers there realized that the "leukopenic" properties of mustard gas — that is, its ability to destroy ...