
of minute bronchial tubes”. P3 In support of this statement the author, in reply to a question on the subject, refers to a preparation marked A which I have had an opportunity of inspecting; but I cannot consider that it shews the alledged fact clearly or at all satisfactorily. I can draw no positive conclusion from this specimen. The author moreover states that if a recent pair of lungs be gradually inflated the longitudinal channels will be seen to become visibly and evidently distended. I have searched for them in lungs after careful and complete inflation, but without success. Finally he says that “if in tracing out the course of the minuter bronchial tubes great care is taken it will be found that some of these tubes reach the surface of the lung, or an interlobular surface, instead of terminating in
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- Author
- James Newton Heale
- Reference
- RR/4/123
- Series
- RR
- Date
- 1860
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Referee report by W. S. Savory on 'Physiological Anatomy of the Lungs' by J. N. Heale, 1860. From The Royal Society, RR/4/123
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