Popular pathology : Pancoast on the curability of consumption : medicated inhalation . 1, Windpipe. 2, Right Lung, or Great Air-Bag 3, Heart. 4, LeftLung half cut away, showing the air pipes and air cells. 6, Midriff,or floor of the Lungs. DESCRIPTION OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. «5-. 108 DESCRIPTION OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. It may be remarked that all the apparatus here mentionedis simply an exquisite mechanical contrivance by which tobring the air in contact with the blood. The essence ofthis contrivance is the system of air-cells. The air-cellsare the terminations or the extremities of the
Popular pathology : Pancoast on the curability of consumption : medicated inhalation . 1, Windpipe. 2, Right Lung, or Great Air-Bag 3, Heart. 4, LeftLung half cut away, showing the air pipes and air cells. 6, Midriff,or floor of the Lungs. DESCRIPTION OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. «5-. 108 DESCRIPTION OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. It may be remarked that all the apparatus here mentionedis simply an exquisite mechanical contrivance by which tobring the air in contact with the blood. The essence ofthis contrivance is the system of air-cells. The air-cellsare the terminations or the extremities of the may be considered truly as the vast expansion of afine, delicate, gosamer-like membrane, pervaded by an intri-cate net-work of minute vessels whose blood is to be ex-posed to the air. The capillaries ramifying in the cell-walls are aerotated on both sides, being enclosed in thefolds of the spider-web-like membrane, which form the par-tition between contiguous cells. The entire arrangementsfully ensure the mutual reactions that take place betweenthe contents of the vessels and the air. In this way theblack venous blood of the Pulmonary artery—that whichhas gone the rounds of the Circulation; and is, therefore, so far spent, and charged with the products of co
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