Edin 1799; discoverer of the distinct functions of the nerves; prof of surgery, Edin, 1836; attacked by SPURZHEIM for his assailing GALL, but the Edin phrenologists claimed him "an unconscious pioneer for Phrenology" (PHREN J, 6 [1829/30]: 610). (DNB; DSB)
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
82.1
— 82.1 "[Attack on GALL'S theory in] Second Part of the Paper on the Nerves of the Orbit, by C.B. Communicated by Sir Humphrey Davy. Read June 19, 1823," Phil Trans Roy Soc Lon, 108 (1823), pt. II: 306-7. Reprinted in An Exposition of the Natural System of the Nerves of the Human Body. With a republication of the papers delivered to the Royal Society on the subject of nerves. London: A & R Spottiswoode, 1824, and in The Nervous System of the Human Body. London: Longman, 1830: 221-2.
82.2
— 82.2 The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body and the Anatomy and Physiology of the Brain. 5th edn, London: Longman & Co, 1826: vol 2: 366ff (contains the aspersions on phrenology responded to in PHREN J, 8 [1832/4]: 333-8).
Editorial Information
Identifier
82.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
29
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24
Database ID
229
Original Transcription
82. BELL, Charles (1774-1842), FRS Edin 1799; discoverer of the
distinct functions of the nerves; prof of surgery, Edin, 1836; attacked by SPURZHEIM for his assailing GALL, but the Edin phrenologists claimed him "an unconscious pioneer for Phrenology" (PHREN
J, 6 [1829/30]: 610). (DNB; DSB)