Blowing Smoke Out Your Ear!

[jones jones]

This cool dude is one J. B. S. Haldane, geneticist, evolutionary biologist and serious BAMF. Whilst conducting numerous experiments in the fields of decompression and the natures of various gases and the effects of these things on the human body, he often used himself as a guinea pig.

A physically courageous 200-pounder, Haldane continued the family tradition of using his own body for dangerous tests. In one experiment, he drank quantities of hydrochloric acid to observe its effects on muscle action; another time he exercised to exhaustion while measuring carbon dioxide pressures in his lungs

Many of his experiments left him in chronic pain. After suffering perforated eardrums after decompression experiments, he said in What Is Life, ‘the drum generally heals up, and if a hole remains in it, although one is somewhat deaf, one can blow tobacco smoke out of the ear in question, which is a social accomplishment.’