Hygiene of the lung in health and disease / by Leopold Von Schrötter ; translated by H.W. Armit.

Date:
1907
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Credit: Hygiene of the lung in health and disease / by Leopold Von Schrötter ; translated by H.W. Armit. 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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    of a very peculiar adaptation of the lung in the cavity of the chest (thorax). Each half of the chest, as it were, contains two membranous bladders, inside each of which one lung is so inserted that it is covered by the corresponding wall of the bladder, to which it is firmly attached—the pulmonary pleura—while the outer wall of the bladder is attached to the chest wall, Fig. 5.—The Pleural Cavity. and thus forms the parietal pleura. The lower part covers the diaphragm (Fig. 5). Since the lung is perfectly adapted to the chest wall, no space exists normally between the pulmonary and the parietal pleura. Only in certain diseased condi- tions can such a space be formed, when fluid, a growth, or even air may be interposed between the layers. These layers being covered by a smooth layer of cells, and being always kept moist, make it possible for the
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