CiACCio_, 0?? the Nerves of the Cornea. 
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ment he lias afforded me in the present undertaking, in which 
I have spared neither time nor labour. 
Some observers maintain that the sclerotica is entirely 
destitute of nerves, but I do unhesitatingly affirm the con- 
trary. I have distinctly seen some very fine bundles of 
nerve-fibres distributed to this coat. These bundles, which 
arise from the nerves destined to supply the cornea, separate 
from them at different angles before they reach the corneal 
margin, and after passing backwards ramify in the fibrous 
tissue of the sclerotica, the bundles anastomosing with each 
other. I have a specimen from the mouse that evidently 
proves this fact. 
