Unlike modern medicine which views the lungs as a pair, Aristotle consistently referred to them in the ( pleumōn ). He believed: The lung is a single organ that wraps around the heart.
Its primary movement is driven by the of the heart, which causes the lung to expand like a bellows. greek and lung
This expansion creates a "void" that draws in external air for cooling. The Hippocratic Era Unlike modern medicine which views the lungs as