
In answer to a question on the subject he says “This can only be demonstrated by means of a recent injection made expressly for the purpose. It must be made while the lungs are in situ, and the point examined into previous to the lungs being removed” But surely such a fact as this should be clearly shewn in a preparation - an examination of which would leave no doubt upon the subject. The author says, the very vascular plexus which ramifies on the surface of the mucous membrane which lines the bronchial tubes “is wholly and exclusively in connection with the pulmonary veins, and receives no anastomosing contribution from the bronchial arteries.” P21. also P.31.32. P. 65.66.67. Again he says - There is no anastomosis or communication of any kind between the bronchial and pulmonary vessels. P.53.54. The author is by means singular in the
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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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