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What the Lungs Are

June 18th, 2007 at 4:36 pm » Comments (0)

THE LUNGS; THEIR MECHANISM AND WONDERS.

What the Lungs Are.– The lungs!dense looking objects, and yet how li buoyant! This beautiful anatomical chart shows us a front view of the chest and lungs, with the lungs enclosed within the bony basket — work of the chest. The lungs are two large, conical bodies, placed [...]



The Collar Bone

June 16th, 2007 at 11:04 pm » Comments (0)

The Collar Bone.  — The collar bone is fast and that one into the breast bone in the first drip, and at the other into a shoulder blade.  It does holes the shoulder-joint out from the chest, eight in protecting the important vessels of the axilla, and gives the arm a greater range of freedom, [...]