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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Napoleon makes his harassed but pompous jailer, Sir Hudson Lowe (Percy Waram), wait for an interview, refuses finally to see him at all. At a birthday dinner, he wonders if he had not better died after one of his victories. The ensuing discussion is interrupted by an earthquake...
Born 64 years ago in Ireland, Sir Joseph Barcroft has been Cambridge University's professor of physiology for ten years...
...courage and curiosity of Sir Joseph led him to undress in an ice-cold room...
Lying down, stark naked, he rested until an assistant saw that unconsciousness was only a few moments away, rushed in with warm blankets, warm drinks. Last week at Yale Sir Joseph recounted his observations thus : "Nature dictates, as you all know, that the body temperature should remain approximately constant at 98.6° Fahrenheit...
...well, I don't know what. Clearly one should be very cautious about taking these liberties with one's mind, and that is the point; the higher parts of the central nervous system were the first things to suffer." In similar vein at Yale last week Sir Joseph recalled how he had sat in a room suffused almost to the killing point with carbon dioxide gas. Of this odorless gas which appears, among other places, in the exhaled breath of all animals, Sir Joseph declared: "The highest percentage which I know to have been breathed experimentally...