the organ of smell. See Anatomy. The uses of the nose are, exciting in us the sense of smelling, and serving in the great office of respiration, as well as in modelling the voice, receiving the abundant humours from the eyes, and adding to the beauty of the face. The nose was by the augurs particularly attended to in forming conjectures concerning future good or ill success. The tingling of the right or left nostril, for instance, was thought to indicate different things, as it happened to different sexes, or to persons in different conditions.

NOSOLOGY is a Greek word signifying a discourse or treatise of diseases, otherwise called pathology. The importance of a comprehensive and accurate nosology has been long and generally allowed. Baglivi, Boerhaave, Gorter, Gaubius, and Sydenham, have expressed their desire for a work of this kind, the great object of which should be to fix the pathognomies of every disease, or to dispose all diseases into certain classes, orders, and genera, founded on distinctions taken from the symptoms only, without regard to remote or proximate causes.