Contributions of John Scott Haldane to medicine

Abstract

So it is with the subject of this essay - John Scott Haldane, whose impatient quest for knowledge coup scarcely await the throwing off of his undergraduate shackles. Resolutely he accepted the challenge presented by the whole field of human knowledge, tackling the most formidable problems and devoting his life and talents to their exploration, and elucidation till at length he attained the crest of his hill - still striving assiduously despite his years to add to the impressive amount of work which he had covered it the fields of philosophy, physiology, biochemistry, firing theory and hygiene, compressed air diseases and public health.

The range and depth of his work, indeed, form. another cliff before which the would -be reviewer pauses more than a little apprehensive of the difficulties ahead. Ever confining our attention purely to his medical work we are de' ling with a gully which has Al crevices and f offshoots and which would require for its adequate assessment far greater bounds than car be provided by such an essay as this. This preliminary survey, for it can be no more, is written it the hope that it may s.id . those reviewers yet to come in their task of placing a great roan in. his true perspective.