3  CULPEPER’s 2NGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
and all parts which have voluntary motion have hard nerves, for that which jg 
hard is fitted to aay. that which jis foft to Laffer : the fofter nerves: are: fuch ag. are 
the fhorteit, and which, belong to-the organs of the fenfes, as the feeing,. tating, 
hearing, and {melling, which laf are the fofteft of alls. and thefe require foft nerves, 
Aas being the objects of fuffering. _ As their sufe is to carry the animal {pirits\ and 
faculties into al] parts for fenfe and motion; fo, if they be obftructed jin their ori- 
ginal, or beginning, or totally, they both perith, and an apoplexy is caufed: if the 
"  obftru@tion be, but in part, then one part is deprived of fenfe and motion: if they 
are cut afunder, the motion of the part into which they are inferted is loft: more- 
over, the nerves diffufe animal light into the parts, by which they are directed. in 
their Operations. _ Hence it appears how neceffary it is for a phyfician to know the 
nerves, their original, differences, and diftribution, that he may underftand to what 
part of the (pina dorfi topic medicaments are to be applied, when fenfe or motion.is 
hurt in the face, neck, arms, hands, mufcles of the belly, womb, bladder, anus, 
) yard, thighs, legs, or feet. Moreover the caufe of the gout feems chiefly to. be the 
extravafating of the nervous juices for the nervous juice, being over-heated or rari 
fied by too much heat, cannot be contained in its proper place; but feeking, more 
room flies out of the folid capacity of the nerve (its proper domicil) into the hol- 
low of the nerve, the channel of the animal fpirits, thereby interfering with-them, 
caufing an extenfion of the nerve, oppofition, and confequently pain, | In thean- 
nexed plate all the nerves are delineated, agreeable to.the following defcription and 
‘atrangement. L 2 i Beis 5. 
The nerves of the brain are nine Pair. 1. The olfactory pair, (fig. 2.)4 a, which, * 
pafiing through the os cribrofum, are fpread over the membrane of: the noftrils. 
“22 Theoptic pair, 2, which by their expanfion form the retina of the eye. 3. The 
_ ‘Motary pair of the eyes, ¢¢, each of which is. divided, near the orbit, into fix parts, “6 
oF branches; of which, im-human fubjeéts, the firft branch goes to the elevator 
opa pebize 5 the fecond, to the elevator of the eye; the third, to the deprefior s the | 
urth p tothe adducent; the fifth to the inferior oblique mufcle; and the fixth 
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t €.tul ics of the eye; but, in other ‘animals, they are divided much’ thei tHe 
thetic pair, dd, which are very fmall, and run to the trochlear m i : 
Phe guitatory pair, which are very large, and:divided within the cra: 
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umeintel three branches,.£ f, immediately under the dura mater figheesees 
“branchyealled:the ophthalmic, runs to various parts of and about the eye, the ie 
‘Adsscthe mibfeles.of the forehead ‘and nofey and the ‘integuments of the fate: i - 
Aecond branch may be called the fuperior maxillary one, ‘as being finally dift i i Ee 
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