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    ‘The Cranial Nerves’

    Date
    1872
    Creator - Organisation
    M & N Hanhart, Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    Books/Flower, W. H_Diagrams of the nerves of the Human Body_1872
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 476mm
    width (print): 318mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Content object
    Description
    The plate illustrates the distribution of the first six pairs of cranial nerves.

    As numbered on the plate:

    1. The olfactory nerve
    2. The optic nerve
    3. The third nerve
    4. The fourth nerve
    5. The fifth nerve
    6. The sixth nerve
    7. The facial nerve
    8. The auditory nerve
    9. The glosso-pharyngeal nerve
    10. The pneumogastric or vagus nerve
    11. The spinal accessory nerve
    12. The hypoglossal nerve

    Plate 1 from the monograph Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body by William Henry Flower FRS (London, J & A Churchill, 1872). Plate inscribed, ‘Plate.1. W.H.Flower. Delt. M&N. Hanhart imp.’
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