. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . artery by Kiittner,-°Zuckerkandl, and others. A careful study of the ques-tion, and of the illustrations of actual sections given bythe author of this aiticle in a previous publication(Miller-) will convince the reader, I feel certain, of theerror of their statement. Along the margins of the lung the radicles of the pul-monary veins are very distinct and superficial, and areoften mistakenfor other ves-sels. Veins Arisingfrom the Capil-lary yeticork inthe Walls of


. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . artery by Kiittner,-°Zuckerkandl, and others. A careful study of the ques-tion, and of the illustrations of actual sections given bythe author of this aiticle in a previous publication(Miller-) will convince the reader, I feel certain, of theerror of their statement. Along the margins of the lung the radicles of the pul-monary veins are very distinct and superficial, and areoften mistakenfor other ves-sels. Veins Arisingfrom the Capil-lary yeticork inthe Walls of theBronchi. — Thebronchial arteryforms within thewalls of thebronchi a net-work of blood-vessels, themesh of whichis elongated inthe long axis ofthe abranch is givenoff, be it fromthe main bron-chus or from anyof its branches,some of thesecapillaries uniteon opposite sidesof the bronchusto form smallradicles, andthese In turnunite to form a small vein, which immediately receives other radiclescoming from the adjoining air-sacs. Two veins are thus » See Journal of Morphology, vol. vlll., pi. Fig. Fig. —Scheme of the Lobule of the LungCut at Rlplit Amrles to Fig. 3351. The arteryis shaded ; the vein ??n the periphery is in out-line. The llrst scheme of the lung construct-ed by Miller. It shows the same arrange-ment of air spaces as in Fig. 32,51, and also asmall branch of the pulmonary artery that isfrequently given off just as the artery entersthe lobule. (After Miller.) 583 IjIIII^S. REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. formed, one on either side of tlie Ijrniiclius, wliicli, run-ning lietweeu tlie lolmles, soon join one of the venoustrunks (Fig. 32ol, 3). By the giving off of these venous radicles at each placewhere the bronchus divides, the bronchial network ofcapillaries becomes so diminished that when the ductulialveolares (terminal Ijronchi) are reached it is reduced toa few capillaries, which at the distal end of each ductulu


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