Lung, capillaries in alveolar walls

Image from Hassall (1849), Microscopic Anatomy of the Human Body in Health and Disease.
Imaged accessed at the Welcome Collection.

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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