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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