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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