
view as the result of his injections, but in answer to further questions refers to a preparation marked A which however is simply a portion of pleura extended between two pieces of glass, and exhibiting, in some parts, the ramifications of minute vessels; but which cannot, I think, be considered to furnish any evidence whatever in its present state, of the alledged fact. The author himself has evidently some doubt of its value, and offers to make a fresh injection. The author says the “Bronchial arteries are minutely distributed upon the successive layers of (subpleural) cellular tissues, yet they cannot, by the minutest injection, be made visible in the tissue of the pleura itself.” P5. He believes that this point is quite established by numerous preparations to which he refers, in which he says the bronchial artery is shewn fully injected, and made to pervade every part of the lungs and of the subpleural tissue, and yet
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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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