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Charles Bell
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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science · Scottish surgeon, anatomist, artist and theologian (1774–1842) · anatomist · neuroscientist · surgeon · writer · physician · university teacher · neurologist · physiologist · philosopher · painter · also Charles Bell, Sir Charles Bell, Sir Bell, Bell
Born 12 November 1774 · Died 28 April 1842 · Q451727
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Published “The ERA5 global reanalysis” in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society — cited 24,474 times.
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1842· 1 entry
Died 1842-04-28.
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1835· 1 entry
Accepted the position of the Chair of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh following the premature death of Prof John William Turner
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1833· 1 entry
Published the fourth Bridgewater Treatise, The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design
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1829· 3 entries
Won Royal Medal (1829).
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The Windmill Street School of Anatomy was incorporated into the new King's College London
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Francis Egerton, the eighth Earl of Bridgewater, died and in his will, he left a large sum of money to the President of the Royal Society of London
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1824· 1 entry
The first professor of Anatomy and Surgery of the College of Surgeons in London
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1821· 2 entries
Bell published the "On the Nerves: Giving an Account of some Experiments on Their Structure and Functions, Which Lead to a New Arrangement of the System" in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
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Described in the trajectory of the facial nerve and a disease, Bell's Palsy which led to the unilateral paralysis of facial muscles, in one of the classics of neurology, a paper delivered to the Royal Society entitled
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1814· 1 entry
Published a Dissertation on Gunshot Wounds
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1811· 2 entries
Charles Bell married Marion Shaw
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In his privately circulated book An Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain
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1809· 1 entry
Bell was among a number of civilian surgeons who volunteered to attend to the many thousands of ill and wounded soldiers who had retreated to Corunna, and 6 years later he again voluntarily attended to the ill and wounde
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1806· 1 entry
With his eye on a teaching post at the Royal Academy, Bell published his Essays on The Anatomy of Expression in Painting (1806), later re-published as Essays on The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression in 1824
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1804· 1 entry
Charles Bell left for London and in 1805 had established himself in the city by buying a house on Leicester Street
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1803· 1 entry
As well as publishing his own set of illustrations in a System of Dissections in 1798 and 1799
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1799· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1799).
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1774· 1 entry
Born 1774-11-12.
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