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Show Book III, Book III. 0f t/ac Mfi'. 867 and briohter colours do melt and Ianguifh into darker, givmg but fweet i." taken clearly be may profpeét a this Of other. each of bluihes plerafant Apertures difcharge their greater or lefs preportions of received Air into one Eye, that admirable tranfition of one into another fo deceiveth the and fuch is [h]? en; difiance a at difierent much but all one where they meet, be difco. terconrfe of Colours in their approaches to each other,that there can of the, rife the from iihable diftingu one, the ion of terminat evident vered no The Nofe may be confidered, either in reference to its Struéiure, or to its llfcs. As to its frame, it may be not unfitly ftyled a curious Compage, made up 71." "ff," other, in which we may clearly difcern Red, to degenerate into a kind of palcnefs, and fo the different approaching colours do fweetly court, and em. brace each other, without the ailiftance of any intermedial colour. Bones, Cartilagcs, Glands, Membranes, and all beingexpanded into many thin coverings, are finely enwrapped one within another, and fet out with a decent Magnitude, good Proportions, and elegant Figure, clothed in White, fpcaking a great Grace to the whole Face. yet the" the Rainbow, in which, though there {hine many feveral colours, they {gem large common Dué‘t ( feared immediately above the Membrane of the Palate) through which the Air is carried into the Mouth near the Fauces. of great variety of fubftanccs, as the outward and inward Skin, Mufclcs, mien." [c To omit the (mix and Cuticula, of which I have Treated as common In- "C "0!!" of tcguments; the next in order are the Bones, which joyn above with indent- the NW cd Proceflbs to the Or fronds, and below with Afperities to the Cartilages, CHAP. II. Of the Nofe. and do render the upper part of the Nofe expanded, and void of Motion, and are Three in number, Two compofing the Sides, and the Third running in the middle, parteth the Cavities of the Noflrils into equal proportions, The bony in whofe upper Region may be difcovered, upon a curious infpeétion on each $2anth fide of the Caverns, a bony fpongy fubftance, pendulous at the lOWer end of the OrCribi-ofum, and faftned to the tides of the Noflrils, and not to the T] e Situation '] ‘ HE Note being the Organ of Smelling, is feared in the middle of 86111071. oi tric_l\ol'c. the Face, as in an eminent part of the Body, the upper region to give reception to the Preamy Scents, impregnating the fluide Particles of Air, which moving upward, are more readily admitted into the Caverns of the Noflrils, where they afi‘tét their tender inward Membrane, all befet with nervous Fi- T're outward part: of "LC bulk, brils with foft Appulfes, which are thence communicated to the inward Senfory of the Brain. The Nofe is adorned with various parts, the upper is called Dorfnm, or Spim, the ridge or gibbous part of it; and the lowefl extremity ( joyned to the Upper part, and failened to the (alumna) is fiiled Globnlm, or Orbicnlm, the middle that runneth tranfverfly from the Globulwr to the Lip, is named (alumna, and the lateral extream parts are called @imm, or A143. The inward part of 11‘: Nol't. The inward furface of the Nofe is divided into two equal Apartiments, into fpiral Cavities, by the interpofition of a Wall or Septum, which arc compofcd of a various fubftance, bony in the upper Region, and Cartilaginous in the lower, reaching from the middle to the Extremity. The pafl'igta (if the Cavivits ur the Note. And each Cavity hath Two paifages feated about the middle of the No- ofthc Nofc. dred Stagnant, whence proceedeth an cxcrebcence, which growing more and more enlarged, may be probably conceived to be one caufe ofa Polypus. And lapprehend, thatNature partly defigneth this fpungy fubfiance, ad- ficflfg hering to the or Cribrofum, as a receptacle of mucous Matter, to give WWW"a check to the continual fluxe of Recrements diftilling from the Brain, and to prevent a confiant trouble of wiping the Nofe. Another defign of Nature in thefe fpungy Bones and Flefh, may be to contribute fomewhar toward the modelling of the voice, becaufe thefe being leffened by cxulceration, or too much enlarged by an excrefcence, do render the voice unpleafant, by reafon of the fonorous Air, pamng out ofthe Mouth into the Caverns of the Nofe, maketh the voice hat-[h againfl; the uneven- neifes of the fpungy Bones, by difordering the due motions of the Air, which being conveyed out of the Mouth, giveth unkindly and unequal Appulfes upon the Tympanum of the Ear. ftrils, the one leading upward to the 0: Etbmaider, the other placed above the Palate, defcends into the inward parts of the Mouth, and Fauces, by And venereal Dif‘tempers fometimes caufea great Erofion,which proceed- The Erofion eth from [harp virulent Humors (fpued out of the extremities of the carotide 23350333: which the Air being impelled through the Noflrils, paffeth down into thC Arteries, into this fungous Flefh) which may be ealily communicated into fiflficflfifii: Mouth, and the mucous Excrements diftilling through the 0s Etbmaidrfi the neighbouring, middle, and {ide Bones of the Nofe,and their natural union "am being violated, are liable to be exterminated the confines of the Noftrils; whereupon the Scprumbeing gone, the Nofe groweth flat and deformed; are forced into the Mouth by firong Infpiration, and fpit out again with 1! e Siam [Thefe bony fungous Proceffcs are lined with a Reddifh fpongy Fleih, 5231'2‘2‘151 \Vliofe fubllance being bruifed by fome unfortunate accident, the Blood is ren- NM" Hawking. In inoft Animals, the Noftrils are furnifhed with a double Sinm, as in Sheep, Oxen, Goats, as alfo in Birds. But Nature in Coneys and Hares, wonderfully fporteth it felf in great variety of Nafal Cavities, ofwhich, TV" are moi): remarkable, and the greatei't is feated on each fide, near the Carti- laginous Stprum (dividing the Nofe in the middle ) going in a f'traightcoutfe to the 0; Etbmoider; and the other confineth near the outfide of this Cavity: and is accompanied with a number of narrow long Cavities, made by thin Cartilaginous partitions, and are more open in the middle, and clofe on their fides and top, and more open in their lower Region, where all their ' ' Apertures and the malignant Ulcers being farther enlarged, till the bones of the Nofe ate rendred cations, and the Face highly disfigured, a fignal mark of God's disfaVOur, giving an opportunity to offenders, in rendring them conlcious of their Guilt and Shame, to make fad refleétions of their great errors in the Glafs of punifhmerit. . The Bones of the Nofe having been dilcourfed, the Cartilages offer them- Editofcihtell" e vesas appendant to them, and are Five in number, of which the Two "(‘3' "PPCmofi are faftened to the lower end of the Bones, where they are more road and rough, which pafling downward, do incline forward, and being N to united, |
