
should be drawn between the action by which the chest is mechanically filled with air by its alternate expansion and contraction and that physiological process and its immediate results, which depend on the amount and degree with which the oxygen combines with the blood in the lungs after the atmosphere has been brought into contact with it through the muscular influences provided for that purpose. The action of the fly-wheel of a watch may be essential in order to set free at proper intervals the motive force of the main= =spring of the instrument but it is not the fly wheel which puts the whole chain of events into operation nor indeed which sustains the movements of the fly-wheel itself. It has been asserted by a modern author of some little celebrity that the air, which is breath= =ed, is neither more nor less than a portion of the food, necessary for the animals consump= =tion and that its influence is similar to food; according to this theory, the lungs can be no= =thing more than a sort of supplemental stomach appointed to digest this particular article
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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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