THE SYMPATHETIC NERVE. 



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coccyx ; the various sympathetic visceral plexuses and 

 Fig. 145.* 



* Fig. 145. General plan of the branches of the fifth pair (after a 

 sketch hy Charles Bell). . I, lesser root of the fifth pair; 2, greater 

 root passing forwards into the Gasserian ganglion ; 3, placed on the 

 hone above the ophthalmic nerve, which is seen dividing into the supra- 

 orbital, lachrymal, and nasal branches, the latter connected with the 

 ophthalmic ganglion ; 4, placed on the bone close to the foramen rotun- 

 dum, marks the superior maxillary division, which is connected below 

 with the spheno-palatine ganglion, and pa'sses forwards to the infra- 

 orbital foramen ; 5, placed on the bone over the foramen ovale, marks 

 the submaxillary nerve, giving off the anterior auricular and muscular 

 branches, and continued by the inferior dental to the lower jaw, and by 

 the gustatory to the tongue ; a, the submaxillary gland, the submax- 

 illary ganglion placed above it in connection with the gustatory nerve ; 

 6, the chorda tympani; 7, the facial nerve issuing from the stylo- 

 mastoid foramen. 



