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Self-experimentation has a long and well-documented history in medicine which continues to the present day. [3] For example, after failed attempts to infect piglets in 1984, Barry Marshall drank a petri dish of Helicobacter pylori from a patient, and soon developed gastritis, achlorhydria, stomach discomfort, nausea, vomiting, and halitosis. [4]
Self-experimentation refers to scientific experimentation in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on themself. Often this means that the designer, operator, subject, analyst, and user or reporter of the experiment are all the same. Self-experimentation has a long and well-documented history in medicine which continues to the present ...
Through self-experimentation, he set out to solve this problem by varying aspects of his lifestyle, like exercise and calcium intake. [8] After many failures to see an improvement in his sleep, he eventually discovered that delaying breakfast, seeing faces in the morning, morning light, and standing solved this problem. [ 9 ]
Inspired by his father, Haldane often used self-experimentation and would expose himself to danger in order to obtain data. To test the effects of acidification of the blood he drank dilute hydrochloric acid , enclosed himself in an airtight room containing 7% carbon dioxide, and found that it 'gives one a rather violent headache'.
Fremont High's Edgar Vazquez finally gets the chance to run, and excel, after COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. High school is about experimentation, as Edgar Vazquez discovered with running Skip ...
Assisted by his graduate student A.L. Washburn, Cannon set out to test whether stomach contractions were responsible for signaling hunger to the brain. Arthur Lawrence Washburn (1887-1965) was a graduate student at Harvard Medical School when he participated in the hunger experiment. Washburn had entered Harvard College in 1906 and graduated ...
Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning, self-study and self-teaching) is the practice of education without the guidance of schoolmasters (i.e., teachers, professors, institutions).
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