The Effect of 10 per Cent and 100 per Cent Oxygen Inhalation on Certain Liver-Function Tests

AS EARLY as 1926, evidence was presented by Resnik and Keefer1 that dogs subjected to anoxia were more easily jaundiced by carbon tetrachloride than the control animals. Since then, several authors,2 3 4 using different approaches, furnished additional data indicating that anoxia in its different forms might disturb certain functions of the liver and cause liver damage. Since most of these experiments were done on animals, and since the ones on human beings were carried out after surgical procedures and anesthesia, it seemed a logical step to examine the problem in human beings with moderate liver disease by the most direct method, . . .