FOR SCIENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 114, 17 May 1927, Page 7

FOR SCIENCE.

Chemist Tests Theories on Himself. EFFECT OF ACIDS. LONDON, May 11. It has been learned that the young physiologist referred to by Lord Haldane during a debate in the House of Lords on vivisection as having operated on himself instead of on a dog was the Law Lord's own nephew, Mr. J. B. S. Haldane, M.A., who in December, 1925, was deprived by the Cambridge University authorities of his office of reader in bio-chemistry in the University, but who was successful in his appeal against the decision. The ordeal he underwent included an artificial method of producing acidotis, enabling him to determine the exact change occurring in the blood's alkalinity, and causing him to pant when climbing a hill. Mr. Haldane made several similar attempts upon himself, and consumed quantities of certain acids, but these failed to take effect, owing to the human body's resistance. Mr. Haldane, who followed the example of his father, frequently had an artery opened for blood analysis after breathing carbonic acid gas.