Bell, Charles

Bio: * 1774, Edinburgh, UK; † 1842, Hallow Park near Worcester, UK
Career: Medical education through his brother; attended some lectures at the University of Edinburgh; 1799 approval as a medical doctor by the Royal College of Surgeons; worked at the Royal Hospital Edinburgh until the faculty of medicine objected; 1804 founder of a school for anatomy; 1812-25 director of the Great Windmill Street School of Anatomy; 1828 co-founder of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School; 1836 professor of surgery at the University of Edinburgh.
Degrees: Medical degree, University of Edinburgh
VL Library: Essays on the anatomy of expression in painting, London 1806; Idea of a new anatomy of the brain ..., London 1811 (Repr. in J. F. Fulton: Selected Readings in the History of Physiology, Springfield 1930: 251 ff.; dt. u.d.T.: Idee einer neuen Hirnanatomie, hrsg. v. E. Ebstein, in: Sudhoffs Klassiker d. Med. 13, 1911); On the nerves of the orbit, in: Phil. Trans. 113(1823): 289; An exposition of the natural system of the nerves of the human body, London 1824; The nervous system of the human body, London 1830. Anatomy of the Human Body, 1803

Bell, Charles. 1826. On the nervous circle which connects the voluntary muscles with the brain. London. Book

Bell, Charles. 1966. Idea of a new anatomy of the brain. A facsimile of the privately printed edition of 1811. London: Dawson of Pall Mall. Book

Bell, Sir Charles. 1834. The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments, as Evincing Design. London: Pickering. Book