Researches on the nature, pathology, and treatment of emphysema of the lungs, and its relations with other diseases of the chest / by A.T.H. Waters.

  • Waters, A. T. Houghton (Alderman Thomas Houghton), 1826-1912.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Researches on the nature, pathology, and treatment of emphysema of the lungs, and its relations with other diseases of the chest / by A.T.H. Waters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fig. H Fig. 3 reinesentp a very thin slice of a cat's lung finjected, inflated, and dried), from the surface of the lung. The eye is looking upon the cut surface. The depressions, a a, are the bottoms of the air-sacs, resting on the pleura. The light coloured lines that siirround them are their walls, and the small depressions seen within the walls, h b, marked off by less distinct lines, are the alveoli. The specimen from which this drawing was made was a very good one, and the drawing may be con- sidered as fairly representing the appearance presented. Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is a drawing of a simiiiir slice to that of Fig. 3, taken from a human lung, a n a are the air-sacs, h b the alveoli. The lighter por- tions represent the walls of the air-sacs and the alveoli.