Unpublished paper, 'Physiological anatomy of the lungs' by James Newton Heale

Description

Heale explains that 'the arrangement observed in the divisions and subdivisions of the bronchial tube is that of a panicle. There is everywhere to be distinguished a straight diminishing tube, from which lesser tubes are given off alternately from its sides; these lesser tubes in their turn observe a similar plan of distribution, and the smaller tubes, down to their ultimate terminations, are governed by the same system. There is nowhere to be found either a true dichotomous or trichotomous division.' He provides detailed observations on the physiology of the lungs.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Marked on front as 'Archives G G S [George Gabriel Stokes]'. Includes 19 plates of figures of a sheep's lung.

Subject: Physiology / Anatomy

Received 28 August 1860. Read 24 November 1860. Communicated by Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 10 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the physiological anatomy of the lungs'.

Reference number

AP/43/4

Earliest possible date

1860

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

90 pages

Format

Drawing
Manuscript