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Title: A practical treatise on medical jurisprudence : with so much of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and the practice of medicine and surgery, as are essential to be known by members of Parliament, lawyers, coroners, magistrates, officers in the army and navy,
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Chitty, Joseph, 1776-1841
Subjects: Medical jurisprudence Anatomy Physiology
Publisher: London : H. Butterworth
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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tion (a compound of the Latin re again, and spiro or spi-ritus), (c) commonly called breathing, consists of the drawing into, in-haling, or technically called inspiring, atmospheric air into the lungs, andthen forcing out, expelling, or technically expiring, from the lungs the airtherein, whilst at the same time the blood is transmitted through a set ofvessels, so situated in the lungs as to enable the air to act upon it, and to (tt) In general, the circulation of theblood has been treated as the principal vitalfunction, and therefore first considered ; andrespiration, or, as some term it, the amos-pherization of such blood, has been treatedas a subordinate function; 2 Bost. 1; butin respect of its indispensable utilities, as well directly as remotely, we have in thiswork given respiration precedence. (6) See in general as to respiration, voice,and speech, El. Blum. 110 to 153 ; 1 Good,493 to 523 ; 2 Bost. 1 to 313 ; Quains El.1st edit. 566, &c. (c) 2 Par. & Fonb. 11. I n. 17-
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