A treatise on the physiological anatomy of the lungs / by James Newton Heale.

Date:
1862
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Credit: A treatise on the physiological anatomy of the lungs / by James Newton Heale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    and establish the link of connexion which binds together all the functions of animal existence. Eepudiating, then, the idea that the function of respiration is a process belonging exclusively to the lungs, or that it can be fully understood by merely studying the shape and structure of those organs, it follows that the investigation of all the points comprised in that process would involve neither more nor less than an inquiry into the modus operandi of physiological operations of every sort and kind. It is obvious, however, that the points con- tained in the few following pages do not embrace so wide a scope. The object is simply to con- dense, into as small a compass as possible, those observations respecting the actual anatomical structure of the lungs (as far as that relates to their physiological performances), wherein a series of observations, extended over a period of many years, enables the author confidently to declare that the accounts which have hitherto prevailed are inaccurate, and to bring forward fresh ana- tomical facts, which his own researches have enabled him to verify. With the view of circumscribing what he has himself to communicate into the smallest possible bulk, he has omitted all the known and undisputed facts that have been advanced by others. In following out these intentions, he has been