Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Method of Publication
- BOOK IX ON THE BRAIN
- BOOK X THE FACE, MOUTH AND PHARYNX
- BOOK XI THE LARYNX AND ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES
- BOOK XII THE GENERATIVE ORGANS AND FOETAL DEVELOPMENT
- BOOK XIII ON THE VEINS AND ARTERIES
- BOOK XIV THE CRANIAL NERVES
- BOOK XV THE SPINAL NERVES
- Index
BOOK X - THE FACE, MOUTH AND PHARYNX
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Method of Publication
- BOOK IX ON THE BRAIN
- BOOK X THE FACE, MOUTH AND PHARYNX
- BOOK XI THE LARYNX AND ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES
- BOOK XII THE GENERATIVE ORGANS AND FOETAL DEVELOPMENT
- BOOK XIII ON THE VEINS AND ARTERIES
- BOOK XIV THE CRANIAL NERVES
- BOOK XV THE SPINAL NERVES
- Index
Summary
In the name of God the compassionate, the merciful. The Tenth Book of Galen's work on Anatomy. In this Book, the eyes, tongue, lips and the movements of deglutition will be surveyed.
INTRODUCTION. DISSECTION OF THE ORBIT AND ITS CONTENTS.
In the immediately preceding book we have described the particular parts of the brain and of the spinal cord, and the damage which can befall both. This should suffice in order to make clear the method which, when followed in dissection, reveals best to visual inspection those parts and the injuries which they suffer. As for these latter, they are to be seen by vivisection, while in other respects the descriptions apply in part to dead animals alone.
In this Book I now describe the method of dissecting the structures of the face, and of the whole of the head, including the symptomatic changes which are to be observed in each one of them. I make my start with those parts where symptomatic changes follow when one divides them, bruises them, ligatures them with a cord, presses them with the fingers or twists them or stretches them unduly far. For when they are exposed to such conditions, the [normal] activity of such organs will be either completely or partially suppressed.
Let us assume now that the brain has been exposed, in that the enveloping bones have been removed, as we have previously explained.
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- Galen on Anatomical ProceduresThe Later Books, pp. 27 - 66Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010