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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Manuscript details
- 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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