Causes of absorption of oxygen by the lungs in man. (Preliminary communication.)

Abstract

In a previous communication we gave a short account of experiments on mice, showing, by the carbon monoxide method of determining the partial pressure of oxygen in the arterial blood, that when want of oxygen is produced by administering to these animals a relatively high percentage of carbon monoxide in the air breathed, active secretion of oxygen inwards through the lung epithelium occurs, although in resting animals the passage inwards of oxygen is apparently due to nothing but simple diffusion.