The mammillary processes are those appendages which absorb the phlegm of the inward or medullary substance of the brain through their own interstices, and secrete it as phlegm into the nostrils, casting it out as the entirely useless waste that the mucus of the nostrils is. For it is not discharged into the throat, where it would besmear the foods, and spoil the appetite. * 935-38 were written, and properly belong, after 948, where we have placed them.