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Poisons the blood in the their air-cells. hair-like blood-vessels Keeps in the poisonous
Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City Sarah F. Buckelew
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-- "The air flows through the nose and mouth, into the windpipe and along the air-tubes, into the air-cells of the lungs."
Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City Sarah F. Buckelew
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The air in these sacs, or air-cells, gives _oxygen_ to the blood in the tiny blood-vessels of the lungs and takes from them the poison, _carbonic-acid gas_, water, and impurities, which it carries back through the windpipe into the outside air.
Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City Sarah F. Buckelew
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What harm is done by the hardening of these air-cells?
Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City Sarah F. Buckelew
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They are composed of a soft, fleshy substance, full of small air-cells and tubes.
Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City Sarah F. Buckelew
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-- "Of a soft, fleshy substance, full of small air-cells and tubes."
Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City Sarah F. Buckelew
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A great feeling reveals new powers in the soul, as a deep breath fills air-cells in the lungs that are not reached by an ordinary inhalation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various
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The blood is borne by each pulsation of the heart to the air-cells of the lungs for vitalization by means of the oxygen inhaled -- the only portion of the air used by the lungs -- giving it a constantly renewing power to energize the whole man.
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This affection of the lungs is produced in two ways: first, by the immediate action of the alcoholic principle upon the highly sensible membrane which lines the trachea, bronchial vessels, and air-cells of the lungs, as poured out by the exhalants; and second, by the sympathy which is called into action between the lungs and other organs already in a state of disease, and more especially that of the stomach and liver.
Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society
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-- "It hardens the walls of the air-cells of the lungs."
Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City Sarah F. Buckelew
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