Sir Charles Bell 1774-1842.

Pearce, Jms

doi:10.1136/jnnp.56.8.913

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

1993

DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.56.8.913

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Sir Charles Bell 1774-1842.

Jms Pearce¹

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“…Long before Charles Bell's (1774Bell's ( -1842Pearce 1993) famous, eponymous account of facial palsy (Pearce, 1999) and its anatomical basis (Bell, 1821(Bell, , 1829, Aulus Cornelius Celsus (1st century AD) and Aretaeus of Cappadocia (c. 2nd century AD), physicians of the Graeco-Roman era (Spencer, 1971) had chronicled facial paralysis. Aretaeus recorded: "Wherefore, the parts are sometimes paralyzed singly, as one eye-brow, or finger" (Pearce, 2013).…”

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Early Observations on Facial Palsy

Pearce

2014

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

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Before Charles Bell's eponymous account of facial palsy, physicians of the Graeco-Roman era had chronicled the condition. The later neglected accounts of the Persian physicians Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari and Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi ("Rhazes") and Avicenna in the first millennium are presented here as major descriptive works preceding the later description by Stalpart van der Wiel in the seventeenth century and those of Friedreich and Bell at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.

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Early Observations on Facial Palsy

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2014

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

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“…For several days, Bell operated at the Gendarmerie Hospital from 6 am to 7 pm until "his clothes became stiff from blood coagulum, and his hands became exhausted from the strain of holding the scalpel" (Howell 1924, Pearce 1993. His sketches also include patients at Hôpital des Jesuites, Caserne St Elizabeth), Peltier) and York.…”

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Charles Bell as an illustrator of military trauma (1809 and 1815)

Krylov¹,

Grigoryan²,

Alekberzade³

2019

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The article analyses paintings of wounded patients created by Scottish anatomist, neurologist, practicing surgeon and artist Charles Bell-graphic sketches in travel sketchbooks, paintings (1809) and watercolours (1815). His works provide a representation of the structure of wounds suffered during battle. The article compares 15 paintings from "The Wounded following the Battle of Corunna" series, (on display in the hall of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh) and 17 watercolours from the collection of Тhe Wellcome Library from the [Royal] Army Medical Services Museum. The authors stress that both the sketches and the paintings derived from sketches from Bell's early work were rudimentary and unsophisticated compared to later watercolours of the wounded during the Battle of Waterloo. Most of the paintings from 1815 are dated and accompanied by comments, detailing not only the circumstances and nature of the wounds, but the name (or surname) of the patient, place of treatment, arm of service, regiment number, as well as a brief excerpt of the medical record, as well as the fate of many of the patients who had undergone surgical treatment. These works provide an insight into not only Bell's work as a surgeon, but how his artistic style developed as well. The visual artefacts and details on the paintings are laconic, yet expressive. The eyes of the wounded soldiers convey an indescribable mixture of the joy of surviving battle, the fear of the irretrievability of physical loss incurred, incessant pain of the wound, its chilling inevitability and submission before its power, moral exhaustion, the after-effects of hypovolemic shock, agony from the impending or completed treatment, anxiety and fear of death. Familiarisation with Bell's paintings when training students of general surgery and the history of medicine acquires didactic significance, while the raising of awareness and provision of accessibility for the general public play a crucial role in understanding the true realities of war and sympathy for its victims.

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“…Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842) was a Scottish physician, scientist, and artist who made many seminal contributions to neurology and neuroanatomy 7. Although he is better known by his account of the clinical consequences of lesions in the seventh nerve, he also studied different spinal and cranial nerves and made contributions to other fields such as neuro‐ophtalmology 8.…”

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Descriptions of Cervical Dystonia by Sir Charles Bell

Gonzalez‐Alegre

2010

Movement Disorders

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Sir Charles Bell is better known among neurologists for his descriptions of the clinical consequences of facial nerve lesions. However, as an accomplished physician, anatomist, and artist, he made many other contributions to the fields of neurology and neuroscience. Among those, his descriptions of patients with what we now know as cervical dystonia have not received much attention. In this report, Bell's depictions of patients presenting with a syndrome consistent with cervical dystonia will be discussed, including the identification of many of the different clinical features we currently use for the diagnosis of this disorder and his thoughts about its pathogenesis.

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Sir Charles Bell 1774-1842.

Cited by 13 publications

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Early Observations on Facial Palsy

Early Observations on Facial Palsy

Charles Bell as an illustrator of military trauma (1809 and 1815)

Descriptions of Cervical Dystonia by Sir Charles Bell

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