The American vegetable practice, or a new and improved guide to health, designed for the use of families : in six parts / by Morris Mattson.

  • Mattson, M. (Morris), 1809?-1885.
Date:
1841
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Credit: The American vegetable practice, or a new and improved guide to health, designed for the use of families : in six parts / by Morris Mattson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is contracted, and becomes a plane ; and in the second, it is re- laxed and pushed up by the abdominal viscera. LUNGS. 122. The lungs are soft, spongy bodies, occupying the cavity of the chest or thorax, and are attached to the neck by means of the trachea or windpipe. They consist of two portions, denom- inated right and left, which are separated from each other by a membranous curtain called the mediastinum. This curtain stretch- es from the spine to the sternum, and divides the chest into two cavities. There is no communication between the right and left lungs therefore, except through the medium of the windpipe, which is common to them both. 123. The shape of these organs corresponds with the cavity in which they are placed, being rounded next the ribs, and hollow or concave where they rest on the arch of the diaphragm. In Fig. 6. View of the right Lung, and Air Passages of the left Lung. the'riSThS^J^f5 ■*• rlght aDd l6ft br°nchia; c' c' c> the three lobe9 of the right lung, d the(inferior or concave surface of the right lung, which rest9