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• The theory of the lung as a gland has justified its existence and done excellent service in bringing forward facts, which shall…
• We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I…
• The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy…
• The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the…
• For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can…
• The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or…
• Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.
• Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the system of valves makes of the veins of every…
• I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and in mammals through a…
• When a suitable quantity of India ink is introduced into the circulation of a living anaesthetized animal, it is evenly mixed with…
• The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current,…
• In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which…

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