
these small capillaries derived from the Bronchial arteries, evidently answer this purpose, while the much more vascular plexus connected with the pulmonary vessels is wholly and exclusively devoted to <s>the<\s> a respiratory <s>process<\s> purpose in which the secretion of bronchial mucus is included, and the two sets of vessels are as distinct in their ramifications as they are in their functions - A drawing in Series B No1 shews the larger Bronchial arteries of their natural size, running on the external surface of the Bronchial tubes - and the drawing in Series B No2. fig a shews the appearance which the interior of the Bron= =chial tubes presents when the Bronchial artery has been fully injected and that in fig. b is a more highly magnified representation of the same - The majority of the vessels shewn in this drawing consist of those which ramify in the fibro-cartilaginous mem= =brane, and are seen through the transparent mucous membrane; some very fine vessels extend however into the tissue of the membrane, evidently for the purpose of what is ordinarily, though erroneously called its 'nutrition'. A drawing which has already been alluded to,
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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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