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OF the problems associated with development of mammalian fœtal lungs, and with the changes they undergo just before and at birth, many are controversial, but Gairdner1, in his careful review of the subject, states that “the weight of evidence supports the view that the fœtus normally inhales and absorbs liquor amnii”.
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TOWERS, B. Amniotic Fluid and the Fœtal Lung. Nature 183, 1140–1141 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831140a0
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