Its Nerves. 
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This extraordinary part did not want for Nerves fufficient for 
it, no more than Blood Veffels : For firft, it has the Nervus 01- 
faQomis , whereof hereafter *, whereby ’cis endu’d with a moft 
acute Senfation of Smelling. 2dly, the aforefaid fecond Branch 
of the 5th Pair; which accompanying the Blood Veffels, is with 
them difpe s’d throughout the whole Subftance of the Probofcu 
by which it has Co acute a Senfation of Touching or Feeling, 
wherewith this Member is more fignaily endued \ and by which it 
avoids whatever is hurtful to it, as appears by that memorable 
lnftance of Dr. Moulins who tells us, that fuch was the Care, in 
that fubjed he treats of, for the Probofcis , that it thruft it two 
foot into hard Ground to preferve it from the Fire. 3dly, the 
hard Portion of the Nervus Auditorius ^ which tho’ it be.diipers.d 
in the Mufclcs of the Face in Human Subjects, yet in Quadrupeds, 
fuch as Oxen, it continues undivided, till it comes to the Angle 
of the Lips ; and here we trac'd it a good way, running forward 
above the Temporal Mufcle, a little below the Ear, till it came 
to the Upper Lip ^ whence it proceeded to the fore mention’d 
tendinous Interface, which runs down on each fide of the Pro. 
bofeis, difperfing a Branch to each of the Fafciculi of Fibres al- 
ready nam’d. This feems to be chiefly adapted for the different 
Motions of the Probe ft is ; for as we fee in the Ajufculus ReEliu 
Abdomivus, that at each of the tendinous Interfaces, whereby 
its Fibres are feveral times gather’d together, a Nerve enters at 
the beginning of each Fafciculus ; So here the Mufcles of th ePro- 
bofis being divided into leveral Fafciculi , each of them have a 
Branch of this Nerve difpers’d in them ; and ’tis fituated on each 
fide, that it may themore convenienly difperfe its Branches both 
to the Fafciculi of the Elsvurores and Rttrattores alternatively. 
The Head was fo mangled af the taking it off, that we could not 
well find, its Origin, as it proceeded from the proper Hole •, but 
hs Situation here, Analogous to that in other Quadrupeds, re- 
moves the fufpicion cf its being any other than the hard Porti- 
on ; tho’ when I confider’d its bignefs, being as great as one of 
my Fingers, and the fmall Hole through which it paflesfrom the 
Proceffus Pctrofus> I was in feme doubt about it*, but when again 
1 began to confider its Texture, 1 was foon convinc’d it muft be 
that and' no other. Twas indeed very pleafant to behold it, (Ter 
feveral Phyfitians and Surgeons of us being together, we cut off 
a Portion of it to know its Scrudure) how that feveral fmall 
Fibres were knit together into one Bundle aad how feveral of 
tfr thefe 
