Blood Reaction and Blood Gases in Pneumonia.

Peabody in 1912 (1) published a paper on the metabolism in pneumonia, in which he reviewed the previous literature and studied among other factors the blood gases and acid-base balance. Since Peabody, a number of other investigators have studied the blood gases and the question of the existence and importance of acidosis in pneumonia. The present paper is a report of observations on these subjects, in which recently developed methods have made possible the attainment of more complete results and apparently have justified the drawing of deductions more definite in some respects than those attainable from previous data.