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Adhesions, or accretions of the lungs to the pleura, and their effects on respiration considered ... in a letter to Dr. George Baker ... To which is now added, a vindication thereof from some misrepresentations / [Malcolm Flemyng].

  • Malcolm Flemyng
Date:
1763
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Credit: Adhesions, or accretions of the lungs to the pleura, and their effects on respiration considered ... in a letter to Dr. George Baker ... To which is now added, a vindication thereof from some misrepresentations / [Malcolm Flemyng]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 ■ «** [ 8 ] “ quent in grown-up perfons. In the <€ Dorcas, (Antilope) a fwift animal, the 44 Lungs were found adhering to the 44 Pleura by the Paris Academicians. And 44 like inftances have been met with, and 44 are recorded by many authors of the beft 44 credit, (who are cited in the note) in 44 the bodies of malefactors, that were 44 executed, and others, who immediately 44 before their death breathed freely and 44 well: infomuch that it has been long 44 the opinion of feveral celebrated prac- 44 titioners, (whofe names are likwife fet 44 down at the bottom of the page) that 44 fuch adhefions are entirely harmlefs.5* Thus far that illuftrious author. The other opinion, befides till keeping in view that fuch adhefions are often found in afthmatic bodies, is fupported chiefly by reafonings drawn from the nature of refpi- ration, and from the ftrudture and fituation of the parts immediately concerned in that function. The great perform whom we have