FOR SCIENCE
CHEMIST TESTS THE,OKIES ON HIMSELF.
EFFECT OF ACIDS
LONDON, May 11
It lias 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 flic* Law Lord’s own nephew, Air J. B. S. Haldane,. At.A., who in December, 11)"25, was deprived by the* Cambridge University authorities of his office, of reader in bio-chemistry in the Univercity, but who was successful in his appeal against the decision. The ordeal he underwent included an artificial method of producing acidotis, oinaldling him to determine the* exact change* occurring in the blood’® alkalinity, and causing him to pant when climbing a hill. Air Haldane made several similar attempts upon, himself, and consumed quantities -of certain acids 1 , but these failed to take effect, owing to the human bodv’is resistance*.
Mr Haldane, who followed the example of his father, frequently had an artery opened for blood analysis -after breathing carbonic acid gas.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 31 May 1927, Page 8
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170FOR SCIENCE Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 31 May 1927, Page 8
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