MAN IN A GLASS BOX.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 30 August 1920, Page 4

MAN IN A GLASS BOX.

- ! riiorESsoirs' six-day EXPERIENCE. yi j- ,Joseph Bari-rot’l. of the Lain ' 'midge Physiological Laboratory, win ' spent six flays in a hermetically sonic box to iirovo whether the amount o 1 oxvjjen in a man's blood can be cal dilated from a knowledge of the quan titv of oxygen in his breath, has lid* bis experiences to a London paper. Ib ; was quite* cheerful after his six days voluntary incarceration, and was eon ducting his class as usual, i ”1 found.” he said, ‘‘that the atnio j sphere became rarer and rarer, am I more and more oxygenised, and t< 1 prevent this from reaching a danger , j ous point it wits necessary to intro j dace nitrogen, which was pumped ii • through a tube in one of the glus walls. On another side was an outle which permitted the oxygen to escape “I kept a record of my sensation and of scientific observations. I suf fered from sleeplessness, but otherw isi ■ did not experience much inconvenienc except on the last day. when tin atmosphere became extremely Tarifk-d I then had headache and sickness.” i The experiment was also made t< demonstrate whether it was necessar; that airmen should have oxygen up paratus when Hying at great heights It proved that oxygen was necessar to flying men, but it was not prove* to what height they could fly wit! j safety. I Mr Barcroft was watched continual!: i while he was in the box. He tool 1 food, and slept in two small compart j ments fitted up with wicker chairs. ; table, a small bed, and a bicycle, oi * I which he had exercised every mornin: 5 ■ on rising.