The nervous system of the human body : as explained in a series of papers read before the Royal Society of London. With an appendix of cases and consultations on nervous diseases / by Sir Charles Bell.

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1844
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    ceasing gratification, a language which is the charm of life, and the bond amongst men. But I am somewhat trespassing, and deviating from the proper object of the paper, which was to shew in what the facial nerve or portio dura is distinguished from the symmetrical nerves—that it is in a different sense a compound or double nerve, and that its roots correspond so far with its various functions. In my next paper, I shall endeavour to shew the necessity of combination between the Facial Nerve and those which enter into the orbit.