Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth - A Celebration of Scientific Eccentricity and Self-Experimentation

Trevor Norton

Pegasus Books

2012

400 páginas

13h 20m

ISBN-10: B0085SKSZQ

A witty celebration of the great eccentrics who have performed dangerous scientific experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind.

Many scientists have followed the advice of the great Victorian doctor Jack Haldane to “never experiment on an animal if a man will do” and “never ask anyone to do anything you wouldn’t do yourself.” He and his father inhaled poisonous gasses to test the efficacy of the prototype gas mask they had invented. When breathing gasses under pressure he suffered the smoking ears and screaming teeth of the title.