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What do underwater divers owe to goats?

Ah! How beautiful Mr. Haldane’s little goats were! And then submissive, petting, allowing themselves to be placed in a hyperbaric chamber without moving… Life not being the tale of Alphonse Daudet, the Scottish physiologist John Scott is not for their soft eyes and non-commissioned goat. Haldane invited them to his experiments. But he wrote in 1908 Journal of Hygiene because being “The largest animals that we could use and that could be obtained in large quantities”goats also have a great ability to be “Stupid and insensitive to pain” but “is able to enter into emotional relationships with those around him” enough for their acquaintances “detect slight anomalies”.

Haldane’s mission was set before him by the Royal Navy: to understand the evil that befalls divers and deep-sea workers when they return to the surface. Because in the nineteenthe century, progress…

Source: Le Figaro

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