Receptors and afferents of the third, fourth, and sixth cranial nerves

Abstract
The view generally accepted regarding the functions of the third, fourth, and sixth cranial nerve pairs is that they are purely motor. Certain experiments and observations made by one of us and published some years ago threw doubt, however, on this belief. It was then shown that severance of the third or fourth or sixth nerves at origin from the brain produces degeneration of practically all the nerve-fibres of the respective muscles innervated by those nerves and of the receptive endorgans with which those muscles are, as was shown, plentifully supplied.

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