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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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    / [ 12 ] equally accommodate their volume to its cavity, by their diftention or conftridtion, thus keeping it conftantly and uniformly full » There is no elaflic air interpofed be¬ tween the furfaces of the lungs and Pleura, in a ftate of health. Tho’ this hath been much controverted of late 5 yet it is prov¬ ed beyond all doubt by the great phy- fiologift above named, as hath been al¬ ready mentioned. The lungs and Pleura conftantly remain almoft quite contiguous to each other ; there being only an un~ elaftic moift vapour in fmall quantity be¬ twixt them. Thefe things being laid down, it may be urged in favour of the opinion which we are now confidering, that fuppofing there are broad clofe adhefions, or rather accretions of the lungs to the Pleura, and particularly in the lower and under part of the Phorax, near where the action of 4 the •v