INDEX 



Accidental discoveries, 33 

 Acid-fast staining, 166 

 Age, creative, 156 

 Agglutination, 29 

 Air sterilisation, 164 

 Analogy, 94 

 Anaphylaxis, 28 

 Aniline dye, 161 

 Anthrax, 96 

 Applied research, 126 

 Attributes for research, 139 



Bacon, Francis, 3, 6, 57, 82, 118, 

 Baker, J. R. 74 

 Balano-posthitis, 165 

 Bancroft, W. D., 25, 148 

 Barcroft, Sir Joseph, 11, 153 

 Bartlett, Sir Frederic, 60 

 B.C.G. Vaccination, 17 

 Bennets, H. W., 46, 157 

 Bernard, Claude, x, 2, 42, 49, 76, 



96, 144, 161 

 Bessemer, 2 



Biographies of scientists, 7 

 Biometrics, 6, 19 

 Blowfly attack, 97 

 Broaching the problem, 8 

 Bordeaux mixture, 162 

 Boron deficiency, 164 

 Burnet, Sir MacFarlane, 8, 57, 



75, 104, 155 

 Butterfield, H., 106 

 Byron, Lord, 2 



Cannon, W. B., 68, 71, 117, 154 



Celsus, 137 



Chamberlain, T. C, 50 



Chance, 27 



Change of post, 156 



Chemotherapy, 32, 44 



Chilled meat, 165 



Choosing the problem, 8 



Clue. 34 



Columbus, Christopher, 41 



Committees, 122 



Competing interests, 6 



Conferences, scientific, 7 



Congresses, 156 



Copper deficiency, 45 



Cramer, F., 146 



Creative age, 157 



Curiosity, 6i 



136 



89. 



59> 



Dai^, Sir Henry, 28, 33, 79, 153 

 Darwin, Charles, 25, 59, 69, 85, 92, 



97, 103, 140 

 Davidson & Warington, 160 

 Davy, Humphry, 59, 149 

 Defining problem, 10 

 Descartes, Rene, 74, 83 

 Dewey, J., 53, 59 

 Diabetes, 28 

 Diamidine, 45 

 Difficulties, 106 

 Diphtheria toxin, 41 

 Discussion, 63, 156 

 Domagk, G., 45 

 Duclaux, E., 27 

 Dunn, J. Shaw, 28 

 Durham, H. E., 29 



Edwards, J. T., 35 

 Ehrlich, Paul, 44, 141, 166 

 Einstein, Albert, 56, 60, 137, 141, 143 

 Electricity, discovery, 160 

 Electro-magnetic induction, i6o 

 Enthusiasm, 155 

 Errors, 115 

 Ethics, 144 

 Examinations, 140 

 Experiments, 13 



definition, 13 



fool's, 89 



misleading, 23 



multiple factor, 21 



negative, 25 



pilot, 15 



planning, 19, 125 



recording, 17 



screening, 15 



sighting, 15 

 Extrasensory perception, 108 

 Evolution, 69 



Fallacy, 19, 22, 23, 116, 117 



False trails, 58 



Faraday, Michael, 58, 86, 112, 136, 



145 

 Farmers, 10 



Fisher, Sir Ronald, 19, 21, 49, 108 



Fleming, Sir Alexander, 35, 37, 93, 



152, 162 



Flexner, Simon, 152, 153 



Florey. Sir Howard, 37, 93, 136, 162 



175 



