Charles bell biography

Sir Charles Bell () was a Scottish anatomist, physiologist, neurologist and surgeon.

Bell was a prolific medical writer, anatomical researcher and a skilled artist, especially war injuries and anatomical drawings.

Bell published and illustrated a System of Dissections whilst still at medical school.

He demonstrated the relationship between the special sense organs and those circumscribed brain areas where the nerve tracts from the sense organs ended; and demonstrated the motor and sensory functions of the anterior and posterior spinal nerve roots.

Most noted for discovering a difference between sensory nerves and motor nerves in the spinal cord () and for describing Bell’s palsy.