PROFESSOR IN GLASS CASE.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1926, Page 1

PROFESSOR IN GLASS CASE.

LONDON, December 19. Years ol hazardous experiment in the cause of science have received appropriate recognition by (lie appointment of Mr Joseph Bnreroft ns prolessor of physiology at Cambridge in succession to the late Dr J. N. Langley. “Professor llarcrol't’s appointment has been received with delight by his col leagues and these working under him. Dr E. A. Adrian, lecturer in physioJog\- at Cambridge, said to a reporter yesterday. “ lie never hesitates to test his own theories, and to demonstrate the effect of a rare atmosphere on human blood be once shut himself off from ihe ordinary air for a week in a glass ease. “ Undergradnales volunteered to watch flay and night over the motor which cleaned the vitiated air he had breathed. He finally secured an atmosphere attainable in normal circumstances only at a very high altitude, but when be came out of the glass case his skin bad changed to a shade of blue. •• When he went to Peru with an expedition two or tliroe years ago, .Mr lisrerol't found that the skin of silverminers living at. an altitude of 10.000 feet was practically the same colour as thal of his own skin when lie came out of the ease.”