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expired air shows a gain in carbon in union with oxygen in the form of car- 

 bon-dioxide. It has been shown that the union of carbon and oxygen does 

 not take place within the blood stream, hence it is obvious that the lungs 

 excrete carbon, and that the union between carbon and oxygen of expired air 

 must take place in the lungs, outside of the blood stream. It is evident that 

 the larger portion of the oxygen of inspired air unites with carbon at this 

 point, and therefore could not pass into the blood by osmosis. 



The excretions of the lungs represent elements of decomposition, material 

 from the tissues undergoing retrograde metamorphosis. In the "American 

 Text Book of Physiology," page 944, the author says: "Through putrefac- 

 tion hydrogen is liberated." Further, on the same page, he continues: "In 

 putrefaction in the presence of oxygen, the hydrogen formed immediately 

 unites with the oxygen, producing water ; hence, notwithstanding the enor- 

 mous amount of putrefaction in the world there is no accumulation of hydro- 

 gen in the atmosphere." The liberation of hydrogen from the decaying 

 excretions of the lungs explains the presence of watery vapor in expired air. 

 It is well known that there are but slight traces of hydrogen in pure atmos- 

 phere ; it is equally well known that there is a considerable quantity of watery 

 vapor in expired air. Therefore, it is evident that hydrogen thus liberated 

 would, under the influence of electro-chemic energy, unite with oxygen of 

 atmosphere, forming water, which becomes vaporized by the heated condition 

 of the lungs. In this union between hydrogen and oxygen of air, together 

 with the before-mentioned union of excreted carbon and oxygen of the air, 

 will be found every molecule of atmospheric oxygen which is supposed to pass 

 into the blood by osmosis. 



Oxygen of air is a cooling, para-magnetic element; its molecules move 

 in pairs. Under the influence of heat these molecules expand, thus becoming 

 more gaseous; this disturbs their magnetic polarity and breaks their chemical 

 bonds. When the bonds of chemical afiinity between the molecules of any 

 substance are broken by heat, expansion, electrolysis or other means, electro- 

 chemic energy is generated. This energy is positive or negative in character 

 according to the nature of the elements from which it originates. 



Oxygen is found chemically combined with arterial blood. Before oxygen 

 of air could unite with blood, circulating as it does in a closed system of 

 tubes, it must be reduced to a fluid state. According to physics there are but 

 two methods of reducing gases to fluids — these are by pressure, or by cooling 

 agencies, neither of which conditions exist in the lungs. 



The temperature of air averages from 60° to 70'-' F., while the temperature 

 of the human lungs is nearly 100° F. ; consequently, in the human lungs we 

 have a cool current of air meeting the resistance of heated surfaces, a con- 

 dition which forbids the reduction of gases to fluids but which favors electro- 

 chemic action. 



