A compleat treatise of the muscles as they appear in humane body, and arise in dissection with diverse anatomical observations not yet discover'd : illustrated by near fourty copper-plates, accurately delineated and engraven / by John Browne ...

Abducens Nasi Alas.

THe Nose is the Organ of Smelling,* 1.1 and this gains place in the more eminent part of the Body, for the better susception of the ascent of Vapours and invisible Hala∣tions, and their Qualities are sent up hither by the Olfactory Nerves to the common Sensory, and are there approved of ac∣cording to Judgment; and thus is Man brought into a capa∣city of either taking or refusing such things as may prove either beneficial or prejudicial, purchased without the Eye, and per∣ceived without the Ear; The Nose is not wholly moved, but rather its lower parts which we call Alae, and these are either kept open or shut by the benefit of Muscles: and these are called either Abducentes or Adducentes, or if you please Ape∣rientes or Claudentes.

This Muscle ariseth very small and Fleshy from Os Maxillae Superioris, near the first Par Labiorum proprium, and is inserted into the lower and upper part of the Alae,* 1.2 and moveth either part upwards.

This you have exactly delineated at Tab. 7. Fig. 1. at D. in s••••, c. shews its Origination, d. its Insertion Fig. 2. id. Tab. you have the same at B.

Notes

• * 1.1

  This dilates 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Nose.
• * 1.2

  Ʋse.