veins and thus make a little whirlpool or vortex
creating a confusion only to be equalled by that in
the intellects of those who adopt such a theory -
The attribute of the pulmonary veins is continually
to increase in size but to give off no branches;
their duty is to gather the arterial blood from
every part of the lungs and to deliver it to the
left auricle of the heart -
It has likewise been seen that the pulmonary
arteries give off no vessels of supply; that
office is wholly discharged by the Bronchial
arteries -
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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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