
of diet. Were this in any degree like the truth, the lungs would, like the stomach itself, only require to have its own particular supply of blood, proportionate to the function it was called upon to discharge; and there would be no necessity for its receiving a supply, rather exceeding that sent to the whole of the remainder of the body taken in the ag= =gregate; and for passing the whole of this large quantity through its own tissue, in the same period of time as that which is required by the remainder of the body, engaged in all <s>the<\s> its multifarious functions, (each demanding a large supply of blood). <s> to dispose of a some= =what less quantity<\s?> - The mere fact that such an pinion should have been seriously advanced, affords a remarkable proof of the extreme shallowness of reasoning, which is deemed suitable for modern demand, and of the futility of endeavouring to establish any proposition, however self-evident, by an appeal to men's intelligence, when prejudice and self-interest intervene and are so potent in rendering physiological facts opake, which
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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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