A handy-book of forensic medicine and toxicology / by W. Bathurst Woodman and Charles Meymott Tidy.

Date:
1877
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    importance of these regions, not only to life, which they share with other parts, but to all that renders life valuable or enjoyable. In the brain we have nearly all the organs of sensation, the nerves for sight, smell, taste, and hearing; and, if we include the neck, not only the nerves, but most of the apparatus for vocal speech. Adding the spinal cord, we get the sense of touch, or common sensation, and the power of locomotion; and all the marvellous endowments of the human hand are derived from the brain and spinal cord as centres. A reference to figs. 108, 109, and 110 [pp. 881-2], will show most parts of the brain, including the cranial nerves. The figure in the text [fig. 115] gives a good idea of the important structures contained in the neck. The clavicle or collar-bone (15) is sawn through in two places, and turned to the right, so as to reflect the clavicular part of (13) the sterno- c\e,\do-mastoid muscle. Fig. 115. (1) Is the occipital artery ; (2) The facial vein ; (3) Spinal division of the s;nnal accessory nerve{part of eighth pair), giving branches to the sterno- mastoid and trapezius musdles ; (4) The facial artery; (5) The interned jugular vein[see Illustrative Cases for an account of a case in which this was tied]; (6) Hypoglossal nerve, or nerve of motion to the tongue ; (7) Corn- municans noni nerve; (8) Lingual artery to the tongue ; (9) Pneumogastric, or vagus nerve; (10) Superior laryngeal nerve; (11) Phrenic nerve, or motor nervo of diaphragm; (12) Superior thyroid artery; (13) Sterno- mastoid muscle, turned back, sec above; (14) Common carotid artery