62 CULPEPER’ ENGLISH PHYSICYAN, 
the nofe ; it alfo has a two-fold table, an internal and an external ‘’ on'¢ach fide of 
this bone, above the'eye-brows, there are large cavities, commonly two in number 
between the two tables, clothed fometimes with a green membrane,’ anid containing 
a foft, clammy, and marrowifh, fubftance; from whence two holes pafs into’the 
wide fpaces of the noftrils ; and another, which ends into the skell above the in 
of the os ethmoides, to diftinguifh the organs of fmelling. . aif 
Offa fincipitis, the bones of the fore-part of the head: thefe cover the moiftet’ ee 
of the brain, are in fhape four-fquare and unequal, and of a more rare or fpongy 
fubftance rhan the other bones, whence the wounds of the /iciput ate deadly they 
are joined before with the bones of the forehead, with the coronal future; to the 0 
atcipitis, by the lambdoide Suture; and to the off temporum, by the future fauamofe* 
without they are fmooth, but within unequal, by reafon of the pfints big a 
jugular veins of the dura mater leave behind them. 
' Os occipitis, the bone of the hinder part of the head, conftitutes almoft all the 
hinder part of the'skull ; and is in children three or four bones, but in grown per= 
fons butone, Its form is that of a fpherical triangle, and is joined to the’ crown- 
bones by the future lambdoides. It is the thickeft’and moft compact of all bones of 
the head, chiefly at the bafis of the skull ; (becaufe there the noble ventricle is feat 
ed, and from thence the nerves arife as from a fountain) but at the edges it is the 
thinneft of all. It is fmooth without, but within it has many finuofities to receive 
the mennings fafely. It has five holes, through the greateft whereof the /pinalis 
medulla pafies to the back-bone. The fmaller ferve for the going forth of thenerves, 
and entrance of veins and arteries, It has nine cavities, feven within'and two with- 
' Out: and two broad procefies at the bafis, covered with a griftle, ‘whichis ‘more . 
eminent, and inferted into the cavities of the firft vertebra for the a ‘of the 
head; as alfo another {mall procefs behind joined tothe firlt vertebra.’ Offa temparum, 
the bones of the temple. Their form is uneven, almoft circular, weil of their 
Various fubftance, which is like rocks and craggy cliffs, for which caufe they are 
: Beat epee the ftoney or rocky bones... In their upper part they are atte- - 
-muated like.a{cale, fo.as to be tranfparent, and are joined to the bones of the fanciput 
like fcales ;; before, they. arejoined to the firft bone of the upper jaw, by its firtt pro- 
cel: and.to the os accipitis, by the baftard future: they have fix.holes without, two 
within :, the firft external hole is large, viz. the auditory paffage, the. other, five.a vr 
3 Ul for veffels to.pafs through, They have two.cavities, an outer,. covered wih 
:: Which receives the lower jaw-bone; and an inner, which is rather. long, 
and common to the os occipitis... The auriculoris is internal, with along protuberaa- 
acai isa three-fold cavity, viz. the drum, the labyrinth, asi choses. 
