rational dispute that the nerves supplied to the lungs
have for their object the regulation of the systemic
function of these organs, and are only connected
with the process of Respiration in as far as they
regulate the contractility and such sensibility as
belong to those organs, and that they in no degree
influence the power of the blood to combine with
oxygen, nor engender the vital properties, which
result from that combination -
a sort of vague and childish superstition is
apt to attribute to these nerves the office of ma=
=nufacturing and supplying those organs with
their <u>vital<\u> susceptibilities and attributed - The
idea is merely a relick of the dark ages, which
was prone to associate life with certain Ghostly
properties, particularly delighting itself by wan=
=dering among concealed labarynths and intricate
passages - Such a method of reasoning on
the properties of Life is only suitable to treatises
on Demonology and witchcraft, and is totally
beneath notice in any physiological investigation
aiming at accuracy or precision -
If the nerves of the Pulmonary plexus were provided
for the purpose of furnishing 'Vitality' to the lungs
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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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