The anatomy of the human body / [William Cheselden].

  • William Cheselden
Date:
1732
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Credit: The anatomy of the human body / [William Cheselden]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    24 through the nofe; but brutes not needing fuch variety of founds, have thefe cavities filled with Lamella, which are covered with membranes in exquilite fenfe of fmelling, than ts neceflary for men. fiitca''e uci : I wave feen an impofthumation from rotten Tab. vill. 24. red by drawing fome of the laft grinding-teeth, and by making a perforation into it through their fockets. Mr. Cowper has admirably defcribed this cafe.. The figns of it are rotten teeth, ftink- ing breath, and great pain about the part... Ihe drawing one or two of the laft grinding-teeth, generally, if not always, in this cafe, opens a paflage into the Antrums; but if not, or if the paffage is not large enough, it may be made or enlarged with a carpenter’s nail-piercer or oim- blet, which is as good an inftrument as can be for the purpole. : Ossa PaLati, are two {mall bones that make the back part of the roof of the mouth, and a fmall part, of the bottom of each orbit, unlefs thefe portions may be accounted diftinct bones. Between the Offa Palati and the Os Maxillare near the pterygoid proceffes of the fphenoidal bone, are two fmall Foramina, through which arteries and nerves pafs to the palate. ! Os VomER, is feated between the bones of the palate, and the fphenoidal bone. It is alfa joined to the procefs of the Ethmoides, and part of the lower jaw. Its fore-part is {pongy, and is Ae | continued
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