3279. Further, when I was beginning to doubt whether they had lungs as we do, by means of which we speak by articulate sound, they showed me by an actual experience how from their pulmonary organs, an aura or atmosphere comes down into the lips, namely, from about the inward locality of the thorax toward the edges of the thorax, and then upwards by a kind of bending into the lips, so that the lips are moved not directly by an inflow of mental images into the tissues, and thus into the motive fibers, but by this pulmonic breath or blowing from within. 1748, 23 Sept.