Lung, capillaries in alveolar walls

Image from Hassall (1849), Microscopic Anatomy of the Human Body in Health and Disease

This drawing, showing capillary beds in the inter-alveolar septa of a couple dozen alveoli, comes from the first English-language textbook of microscopic anatomy, by Arthur Hill Hassall (1817-1894).

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