
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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