Charles Bell

Sir Charles Bell KH FRS FRSE FRCSE
Born	(1774-11-12)12 November 1774 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	28 April 1842(1842-04-28) (aged 67) Hallow, Worcestershire, England
Nationality	Scottish
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
Known for	authority on the human nervous system
Awards	Royal Medal (1829)
Scientific career
Fields	Anatomy
Institutions	Surgeon, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (1799–) Practising surgeon, London (1804–) Principal Lecturer, Great Windmill Street School of Anatomy (1812–25) Lectured at Middlesex Hospital etc (1812–36) Professor of Surgery, Edinburgh University (1836–42)
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Author of "Treatise on Animal Mechanics", "An Essay on the Hand, its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design"

Sir Charles Bell KH FRS FRSE FRCSE MWS (12 November 1774 – 28 April 1842) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, physiologist, neurologist, artist, and philosophical theologian. He is noted for discovering the difference between sensory nerves and motor nerves in the spinal cord. He is also noted for describing Bell's palsy.

His three older brothers included Robert Bell (1757–1816) a Writer to the Signet, John Bell (1763–1820), also a noted surgeon and writer; and the advocate George Joseph Bell (1770–1843) who became a professor of law at the University of Edinburgh and a principal clerk at the Court of Session.^[1]