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Physiological Anatomy of the Lungs.
By D<sup>r<\sup> Heale. Received Aug. 28. 1869 Read
Nov 24/60
Communicated by Sir B. Brodie Bart Pres. R.S.
In investigating the physiological anatomy
of the lungs, it is convenient to make a cursory examination of the external and general fea=
=tures of those organs, before entering upon
the consideration of their minute structure
Pleura First as regards the Pleura
The general characteristics of this structure
and the mode in which it is distributed, so
as to enclose and protect the lungs, and to render
them detached and insulated from other organs,
may be inferred with sufficient accuracy from
the descriptions given in ordinary anatomical
works. Two remarkable circumstances must
however be noticed: viz that the blood-vessels
which are actually distributed to the tissue of
the Pleura are exclusively derived from the Pul=
=monary system of blood-vessels. This fact will
establish the truth that the function which the
Pleura itself is called upon to discharge is wholly
and exclusively connected with the process of
'Respiration'; since the evidences which this
paper will bring to notice, establish beyond the
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- Author
- James Newton Heale
- Reference
- AP/43/4
- Series
- AP
- Date
- 1860
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Physiological Anatomy of the Lungs, 1860. From The Royal Society, AP/43/4
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