Being a self-experimenter is not for the faint hearted. You have to be willing to do things which most people wouldn’t even imagine. All this just to prove oneself right to the world. In today’s post which is a part of the DOCTORS & SCIENTISTS WHO SELF EXPERIMENTED we see a man who took this […]
We all have had gastritis at some point or the other. During wedding or festival season when we tend to hog on spicy, oily food. During exams or in times of personal difficulty too. Most commonly we pop in a pill or drink a glass of ENO and the symptoms just disappear. But what if […]
The field of surgery has changed remarkably over the years because of various advances in instruments, drugs and anesthetic agents. One of the reasons why patients can go into and come out of the surgery comfortably is because of advances in general anaesthesia of which Nitrous Oxide gas plays a vital part. Known to the […]
Self-experimentation need not always been painful or gross as we have seen in the previous posts of this month under the title DOCTORS & SCIENTISTS WHO SELF- EXPERIMENTED. Sometimes these experiments have actually given their subjects a high. This is one such experiment. Albert Hofman was a Swiss scientist born in Baden, Switzerland on 11thJanuary 1906. […]
This month my blog is dedicated to Doctors & Scientists Who Self-Experimented. So far, we’ve come across a number of individuals who pushed the boundaries of human endurance for the sake of science. While most of them are indeed commendable, there are those who come across as bizarre. Today we read about one such individual […]
Some people are born to fly, literally. And then there are those who are born to test the speed limit, so that the rest of us can fly safely. Today we read about a man, who willingly put himself in danger of shattering every bone in his body multiple times just so that it would […]
Man is a social being. All of us crave for company, good company. Most of the time we reminisce the past with our friends and family and crave for them when we are all alone. Of course there are times when we want to be left all alone but for us to stay happy and […]
The theme that I have chosen for the month of April-2018 is #Doctors & Scientists Self Experimented has made me realise the lengths that people can go to prove themselves right. Some of them do it just to boost their ego. I had written about Dr Evan O’ Neill Kane who had operated on himself […]
Sexually transmitted diseases have had a long history of research and experimentation. These days HIV and Hepatitis B are in focus being the most common & feared sexually transmitted diseases. But before these two diseases came into focus, Gonorrhea and Syphilis were two STD’s which were studied extensively because of their prevalence at the time […]
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word “party”? Some of you would think of booze, others would be excited that there would be dancing. Some would just be happy to chat and mingle with the others. What about doctors, scientists and researchers? Do they party.? And if […]
