Diana E Manuel, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003066
1774–1842 Scottish anatomist and artist associated with the elucidation of sensory and motor functions of spinal nerve roots and renowned for his anatomical drawings.
Keywords: anatomist; artist; spinal nerve roots; Bell–Magendie controversy; anatomical drawings; illustrations of wounded in napoleonic wars
| Further Reading | |
| book Bell C (1806) Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. | |
| book Bell C (1811) Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain, Submitted for the Observation of his Friends. London: Strahan and Preston. | |
| book Bell C (1833) On the Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design, and Illustrating the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. London: William Pickering. | |
| book Bell C (1836) The Nervous System of the Human Body: as Explained in a Series of Papers Read Before the Royal Society of London, 3rd. edn. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. | |
| book Cranefield P (1974) The Way In and the Way Out. François Magendie, Charles Bell and the Roots of the Spinal Nerves. New York: Futura. | |
| book Gordon-Taylor G and Walls EW (1958) Sir Charles Bell: His Life and Times. Edinburgh. London: S Livingstone. | |
| book Walls EW and Gardner DL (1996) Charles Bell 1774–1842 Surgeon, Physiologist, Artist and Author. [Booklet to accompany Exhibition, August 1996, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.] | |
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