The chequered career of Galen's doctrine on the pulmonary veins.
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By its heat and continuous motion, the lung further concocts the blood brought to it through the arterylike vein [pulmonary artery], and renders it foamier, such as that [blood] already is which reaches the lung through the veinlike artery [pulmonary vein] from the left ventricle of the heart, since it has already been elaborated in both ventricles of the heart. [Our italics] Vesalius, Fabrica, 1543, p. 596.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 15 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1971