Carpenter's principles of human physiology . soft palate, well-known case 01 dames divided through its raiddfe- ^10 Cut sm:fac^ of the hard pala£e_ 0_ Mitchell, who Was blind, The olfactory peduncle, b. Its three roots of origin, c. OlfactoryA f J 1 h, f Vi ganglion, from which the filaments proceed that spread out in the sub- deal and dumo, irom niS stance of the pituitary membrane, d. The nasal nerve, a branch of thebirth it was the principal ophthalmic nerve, descending into the left nares from the anterior fora- _ . * . -i • men of the cribriform plate, and dividing into its external and i
Carpenter's principles of human physiology . soft palate, well-known case 01 dames divided through its raiddfe- ^10 Cut sm:fac^ of the hard pala£e_ 0_ Mitchell, who Was blind, The olfactory peduncle, b. Its three roots of origin, c. OlfactoryA f J 1 h, f Vi ganglion, from which the filaments proceed that spread out in the sub- deal and dumo, irom niS stance of the pituitary membrane, d. The nasal nerve, a branch of thebirth it was the principal ophthalmic nerve, descending into the left nares from the anterior fora- _ . * . -i • men of the cribriform plate, and dividing into its external and internal means OI distinguishing branch, e. The naso-palatine nerve, a branch of the spheno-palatineganglion, distributing twigs to the mucous membrane of the septumnasi in its course to (/) the anterior palatine foramen, where it forms asmall gangliform swelling (Cloquets ganglion) by its union with itsfellow of the opposite side. g. Branches of the naso-palatine nerve tothe palate, h. Posterior palatine nerves, i, i. The septum Distribution of the Olfactory Nerve on the Septum Nasi. The nareshave been divided by a longitudinal section made immediately to the persons, and enabled himat once to perceive theentrance of a is recorded that a blindgentleman, who had an antipathy for cats, was possessed of a sensibility so acutein this respect, that he perceived the proximity of one that had been accidentallyshut-up in a closet adjoining his room. Among savage tribes, whose senses aremore cultivated than those of civilized nations, more direct use being made of thepowers of observation, the scent is almost as acute as in the lower Mammalia;thus it is asserted by Humboldt, that the Peruvian Indians in the middle ofthe night can distinguish the different races, whether European, American-Indian, or Negro ; and the Arabs of the Great Desert are said to be able todistinguish the smell of a fire thirty miles off.—The quantity of some odorous Quoted in Hermanns Hand
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