The physiological role of the lung was not realized before the middle of the sixteenth century. In 1553 Michael SERVETUS stated that there occurred in the long "the generation of the vital spirit, a compound of the inspired air with the most subtle portion of the b1ood. 1) The first investigations on the intimate structure of the lung were those by MALPIGHI (1697) who demonstrated that the two systems in the lung, the air conducting and vascular systems, were independent and that no communication existed between them.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.109621 |
| Date | January 1954 |
| Creators | Bertalanffy, Felix. D. |
| Contributors | Leblond, C. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Biology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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