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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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    deducible from what Is previoufly laid down. Baron Haller in the above cited place of his juftly admired Elements, after having fully fhown from experiments and reafon that in the found living human body there is no elaftic air, of the nature of our At- mofphere, within the Cavity of the Tho¬ rax, interpofed between the lungs and in¬ ternal furface of the Pleura, draws the following conclufion, tc That by the con- verfe of this propofition, as air, when it gets between the Lungs and Pleura, <c fuppofe from penetrating wounds of the Thorax, is hurtful to refpiration, by a parity of reafon the adhefion of that *e Vifcus to the Pleura is not in the lead: cc detrimental to it, becaufe it excludes all inteipofition or air ; and does not permit <c the Lungs to recede from the Pleura. It hath been obferved above (to wit page 121 and 122 of the fame volume) u that fuch adhefions are extremely fre- “ quent