Traite T>e /' Organe de r Ovie par 
Mons'^DuV^nitj. S'^'- //Paris id8|* 
T^HaC you may know to expect from Monf^ Du Ver- 
^ nef% treatife of the Or^an of Hearings the Firft thing 
to beconfidered is, the Natural, and therefore the Beft^^z^^- 
^W he hath taken in it> The Book is divided into three 
parts > the firft of which contains his Anatomical Difcove^ 
ries of theftrUCtureoftheOr^^;? itfelf/ The Second pare 
gives us the ufe of all the parts of that Organ, grounded 
upon the Mechanifm o\ the whole- ihe Third and laft 
part containeth the D?fea[es incident to thisOr^^;2j with 
afull defcription oi the feveral caufes which difaffectitj 
and the manner they act by, together with particular 
medies for each Dijiemper, 
The is fitft divided into the External and the fnter- 
nal; the External is compofed of a Cartilage covered with 
a Skin Very delicate, under which you meet with another 
Nervous tegument, that immediately embraces the whole 
Cartilage^ which after fomefew folds terminates in that 
part of the Ear which we call the Concha^ from its reftm^ 
blance to the entrance of a fnail fliel : befidcs thefe it hath 
two Mufcles - the Firft is made up of certain carneous Ttbres 
fixt to that part of the Pericranium that covers the mufcu^ 
lous Crotaphytes , and dcfcends in a ftraight line to infert it 
felf at the upper part of the fecond folding of the Ear ; the 
Second likewife confifts of five or Gx Carneous Fibres that 
take their rife from the upper and foremcft part of the A- 
pophyfis Majioides ^ and defcendingobliquely for about an 
inch terminate at the middle of the Concha. Arteries it hath 
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