
No 4 fig <s>b<\s>c & fig d, and in the diagram C No 7. have attained a certain size they soon come into contact with the larger Bronchial tubes, and one of them becomes placed on the under sur= =face of each tube, but still continues to run in an interlobular space - They collect similar branches from other lobules and receive the trunks of the ramusculi, which run on the outer surface of each Bronchial tube and collect the blood from the plexus within it, and thus they continue to increase in size until they terminate in the four large veins which enter the left auricle of the heart - In this course, no branches of any sort or kind are given off from them to any tissue whatever, and they receive no contributions from the Brochial vessels; most certainly the blood brought by the Bronchial arteries is not conveyed back to the heart in the smallest degree by these veins; otherwise there would be a small circulation going on round and round through the left side of the heart and through a small portion of the lungs, and thus by accident the blood destined for the supply of the body at large might miss its way occasionally and go back again to the lungs through the Bronchial arteries and again find its way into the pulmonary
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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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