parts Soon after ftie acquainted me ^ that Jlie vtvy fenfi« 
biy perceived a great drawing and trickling all down her 
Leg and Thigh 5 and afterwards owned an abatement of 
her Paioe. In Peftilential Swellings very probably it may 
be of ufe. But / have already too far digrefled and 
fhalinowgo on in finifliing my Account of the Anatome 
of the B^tle-fnake in defcribing the Sh^hton^ and fhali 
make amends for my former prolixnefs by being more 
concife and flhort in this. 
Andfirft ofthe Bones the Head. I obferved that 
* rig, 6. the ^ Cranium here was entire, without Sutures^ as re- 
prefented in our Figure ; only where fome other Bones 
were joyned to them^ as forwards over the Noftnls^ were 
* ^"^^^ imdiW Bones , to which were faftned the |j C^m- 
" lages^ or rather Bones which divide the Nofe, The 0- 
ther Bones feemed admirably contrived for the great Ex- 
tenfion^ and widening of the Maxilla $ which feems a 
great provifion of Nature ; for fince it muft fwallow all 
things whole> and its Head is but faialL without this moft 
Mechanical contrivance it were impoffible to do it, The 
t^^/^^ry^ip forward was joyned to the Bone that recieves 
the Poy fonous Fange s and which had a large Cavity in it, 
* F/|:.j.& which opened outward* and was thought to be the Fo-^ 
rammof thenars but inwards we obferved no perfora- 
tion for a Nerve, unlefs there might be one that comes to 
^Fig, 6,e^eAt Under that t Bone which conjoynes ir to the Cranium. 
This Articulation feems advantagious, both for the mo* 
tion of the Fang, which lyes fometimes couched, fome- 
times ere^ftedi as the Jaw too • but its principaland moft 
remarkable advantage for Swallowing large bodies, is 
the curious Articulatioa of the Maxilh backwards to the 
Crmumy by two Bones , which from their ufe (fince we 
know no Name to diftinguifti them by ) we (hall call 
Ma^illa^um Diktms. Their fhapcj bignefs^ and aptnefs 
for this motion will readily enough be coacieved by the 
n fig. h n.Q. 'Ey^s obferving the Figure . D For the lower Jaw being 
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