
Bronchial tubes, and which furnishes a kind of framework, or capsule to the leaflets and lobules. The contractile action of the circular and lon= =gitudinal fibres of the Bronchial tubes, and of the capsules of the leaflets and lobules are doubtless controuled by the operation of <u>one<\u> cause, which influences them all and compels them to act in unison with one another, and not only so, but likewise causes them to act in combination with the complicated machinery of muscles, external to the <s>chest<\s> lungs, which are occupied in the process of respiration: and it is as clear as any Physiological deduction can properly be, that the nerves of the pulmonary plexus and more particularly that part of it which appertains to the vagus nerve are the agents whereby the unanimity of the contractile actions, necessary to accomplish the function of mechanical breathing with its allied pheno= =mena (e.g. coughing and sneezing) is brought about - It is of importance that a clear distinction
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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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