DIAGRAM OF COURSE OF TASTE FIBRES. 



Ophthalmic Div?af Fifth 



Superior Ma.xilla,ry 

 DivCof Fifth __ 



Fa.cis.1 Nerve 

 '-Auditory Nerve 



Genicu/ate Ganglion 

 " Facial Nerve 



_ Lesser Superficial 

 Nerve 



Nerve Co St&pedius 



Jcicobaon's Nerve 



Meckel s Ganglion--'' , 

 Vidl&n Nerve *"' 



FIG. 18. The thick black lines indicate the course believed to be taken by the 

 taste fibres. 1. From the front and sides of the tongue through, the chorda 

 tyrnpani to the facial trunk, thence through the great superficial petrosal 

 and Vidian nerves to Meckel's ganglion and so to the superior maxillary division 

 of the fifth nerve. 2. From the back of the tongue and neighbouring parts 

 through the glossopharyngeal nerve, its tympanic branch (Jacobson's nerve) 

 and the lesser superficial petrosal nerve, to the otic ganglion and the inferior 

 maxillary division of the fifth nerve. 



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