ABSTRACT
Page 217 take place through the excessive effusion of some viscous I or thick fluid, which descendeth to the lungs-! mean shortness of breath in a man-it is to be understood that the fluid is confined in the oesophagus of the lungs. Now the oesophagus, which is situated in the throat and is also called the "rough artery", is distributed throughout the lungs in the same way as the artery that cometh to it from the heart, for it is well known that the nature (i.e., substance) of the little oesophagi is in all the lungs. Now those who dissect the body call the little tubes (or, canals), which are composed of cartilages, "little oesophagi", and they have a kind of circular [form].
