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  • Title: Historical development of the concept of a pulmonary circulation.
    Author: Persaud TV.
    Journal: Can J Cardiol; 1989; 5(1):12-6. PubMed ID: 2645980.
    Abstract:
    Philosophical speculations and theories regarding the flow of blood through the lungs are reviewed from an historical standpoint. Michael Servetus (1511-1553) described the pulmonary circulation in his book 'Christianismi Restitutio', published in 1553. From manuscripts that were rediscovered and translated in 1924 we now know that Ibn al-Nafis (1210-1288) of Damascus had made the same observations three centuries earlier.
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