The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr. Thomas Willis ...: Viz I. Of fermentation, II. Of feavours, III. Of urines, IV. Of the ascension of the bloud, V. Of musculary motion, VI. Of the anatomy of the brain, VII. Of the description and uses of the nerves, VIII. Of convulsive diseases : the first part, though last published, with large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index ... : with eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. esq.
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The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr. Thomas Willis ...: Viz I. Of fermentation, II. Of feavours, III. Of urines, IV. Of the ascension of the bloud, V. Of musculary motion, VI. Of the anatomy of the brain, VII. Of the description and uses of the nerves, VIII. Of convulsive diseases : the first part, though last published, with large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index ... : with eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. esq.
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Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.
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London :: Printed for T. Dring, C. Harper, J. Leigh, and S. Martyn ...,
MDCLXXXI [1681]
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"The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr. Thomas Willis ...: Viz I. Of fermentation, II. Of feavours, III. Of urines, IV. Of the ascension of the bloud, V. Of musculary motion, VI. Of the anatomy of the brain, VII. Of the description and uses of the nerves, VIII. Of convulsive diseases : the first part, though last published, with large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index ... : with eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. esq." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96634.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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The Second Figure shews all the Nerves, which being carried from the Nerves of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth Pair, are bestowed upon the Muscles and other parts of the Eye.
A. The Nerve of the third pair carried to the three straight Muscles, and into the out∣ward oblique one.
B. The Nerve of the fifth pair, or the pathetick Nerve, goes whole into the trochlear Muscle.
C. The Nerve of the sixth pair into the drawing back Muscle, and the seventh proper to Beasts.
D. The Nerve of the fifth pair whose Ophthalmick branch E. is divided into two branches.
F. The upper branch, being presently torn into many shoots, tends directly towards the inner corner, where it is bestowed on the Glandula's and Eye-lids.
G. The lower Ophthalmick branch, which being divided into shoots, respects after a like manner the Glandula's and Eye-lids towards the outward corner of the Eye.
a. The Nerve of the fourth pair for the trochlear Muscle.
b. A branch of the Nerve of the third pair for the Muscle lifting up the Eye-lids.
c. A branch of the same pair for the Muscle shutting the Eye-lids.
d. A branch of the same Nerve for the Muscle pressing close the Eye-lid.
f. A branch of the same for the outward oblique Muscle.
g. Lesser Nerves out of the infolding of the third pair, tending through the Sclerotick Coat into the Uvea.
e. The Nerve of the sixth pair for the drawing-back Muscle.
*** Fibres or lesser branches from the fifth and sixth pair for the seventh Muscle, proper to Brutes.
h. A Nerve coming from the upper Ophthalmick branch into the Nostrils.
i. A Nerve from the same branch into the Eye-brows and Forehead.
H. The trunk of the fifth pair cut off, which tends to the lower Jaw.
I. A branch of the same cut off, which is carried to the Palate.
K. Its upper maxillar branch.
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