Carbon Monoxide as a Tissue Poison

Abstract

CARBON monoxide is relatively harmless to invertebrates, micro-organisms and plants.Thus Frankland [1888], Linosier [1889] and others, who found that very large amounts inhibited plant and bacterial growth, did not show conclusively that CO is any more poisonous than N2.J. S. Haldane [1895] showed that cockroaches would live for long periods in a mixture of 80 % CO and 20 % 02.Warburg [1926] however found that when the proportion of