

THE NEEVES. 



The superior branch, the largest, ascends towards tlie forehead, and describes a curve with 

 convexity upwards, turns round the orbit, and terminates near its nasal angle. In its course it 

 furnishes: 1 An anterior auricular ramuscule. 2. Above the insertion of the masseter, several 

 muscular filaments. 3. It is crossed, above the eye, by the superciliary filaments of the 

 ophthalmic nerve. The middle branch accompanies Steno's duct to the surface of the cheek ; 

 reaching the anterior border of the masseter, it anastomoses in a very flexuous manner with 

 the ramuscule of the inferior branch, and ti-rminatps in the upper lip and the end of the nose. 

 The inferior branch pas&es towards the maxillary fissure; there it receives the sensitive 





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ramuscule sent to it by the fifth pair, gives off filaments to the middle branch, and is then 

 continued into the lower lip. 



Pneumogastric. — The sensitive roots closely resemble, in their disposition, those in the Ox. 

 The motor roots are separated into two series of filaments ; the anterior unite in a small ganglion 

 then pass into the jugular ganglion ; the posterior lie beside the medullary root of the spinal 

 accessory, but leave it to become united with the jugular ganglion. 



Below the foramen lacertim, the pneumogastric nerve gives off tlie pharyngeal nerve before 

 forming the analogue of the plexifnrm ganglion of Man. This plexus is better defined than 

 in him, and is a real fusiform elongated ganglion, at the grey basis of which some white 

 e seen. It is situated a little farther from the cranium than the superior cervical 



