Initialing has been used by medical students with splendid results and
has reduced the labor of learning to a minimum. The branches of the
external carrotid arteries can be remembered by the following sentence:
Some Try Large Feats, Others Prefer
Superior Thyroid, Lingual, Facial, Occipital, Pharyngeal,
A Simple Task In Memory.
Auricular, Superficial, Temporal, Internal Maxillary.
For practice make a sentence of your own from the initials of
the twelve pair of Cranial Nerves, which are Olefactory, Optic,
Motor Oculi, Pathetic, Trifacial, Abducent, Facial, Auditory,
Glosso-Pharyngeal, Pneumogastric, Spinal Accessory, Hypoglossal. For
example, Oh! Out Motoring Papa Took A Friend and Got Paul Some Heather.
Others can be made, but the one which the child makes for himself he
will remember easiest.