?be Five Senfes. [Book IX. 



inftinclive principles ; but if I was difpofed to enter 

 into the difpute, this would not be the proper place. 



The fenfes are five in number: touch, tafte, 

 fmelling, hearing, and fight. Of thefe I fhall en- 

 deavour briefly to treat in their order. I have in 

 general confidered it as more conducive to perfpicuity, 

 to feparate the anatomical defcription of the organs 

 from the functions to which they are fubfervient ; but 

 as the organs of fenfation are fmall, and at the fame 

 time not much connected with the great outlines in 

 the^rudure of the body ; and as the organs of fome 

 of the fenfes, particularly that of hearing, are complex, 

 and very difficult to be retained in the mind, I have, 

 in this inftance, thought u neceffary to depart from 

 the former arrangement. 



