Sir Charles Bell was not affected by facial paralysis himself!

Inaccuracies and useless debats associated with the use of secondary references

“…The authors' reply intro duced new doubtful pictorial arguments not mentioned in the first publication. Once again, Korteweg et al 3 re plied in proving that these new arguments were based on invalid suppositions and that they can't be used to support the fact that Bell had himself a facial paralysis. This time, the authors' reply added some inadequate "per sonal" comments, which have nothing to do with a con structive and scholarly discussion.…”