Charles Bell

Scottish physician, painter and theologian (1774-1842) · United Kingdom · Doctors · Died at 67

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Sir Charles Bell was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, physiologist, neurologist, artist, and philosophical theologian. Bell discovered the difference between sensory nerves and motor nerves in the spinal cord, and also described Bell's palsy.

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The Maniac by Charles Bell (1806)

Opisthotonus (Tetanus) by Charles Bell (1809)

Plate 10 from "Anatomy of the Brain Explained in a Series of Engravings" Image credited to Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

Awards

Fellow of the Royal Society

Royal Medal

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

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Sibling: George Joseph Bell

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United Kingdom

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