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The microscope and its revelations (1856)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · London : John Churchill · leaf 761

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ure differs from the foregoing, though thegeneral effect of it is the same. Eor the whole interior isdivided-up into minute air-ceUs, which fi-eely communicatewith each other, and with the ultimate ramifications of theau--tubes into which the trachea (windpipe) subdivides; andthe network of… … of these air-cells grouped around the termination of each air-tube in Man, is not less than 18,000; and that the totalnumber in the entire lungs is siv hundred millions. 439. The fol-lowing list of theparts of the bo-dies of Verte-brata, of whichInjected prepara-tions are mostinteresting…

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