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After Sir Charles Bell, Scottish anatomist, Bell's Law, an axiom, states the motor anterior or ventral and the sensory posterior or dorsal roots of the spinal nerves; accordingly, any reflex arc conducts impulses in only one direction.

After Sir Charles Bell, Scottish anatomist, trauma, compression, or infection of the facial nerve results in sudden onset of muscle weakness and a distorted expression, which characterizes Bell's palsy, a unilateral paralysis.

This man served as surgeon, physiologist, artist, and philosophical theologian. He discovered the noted difference in the cord. He also described Bell's palsy.

In Edinburgh, Bell lived, studied, and got his medical degree in 1799. Extraordinary talents of his brother together drew, taught, illustrated, and published two volumes of A System of Dissection Explaining the Anatomy of the Human Body .

After graduation, the royal college of surgeons quickly admitted Charles Bell, who operated and taught. He and his brother published two additional volumes of their treatise in 1802 and 1804. His success, however, led to jealous opposition of local physicians, and from practice, the royal infirmary of Edinburgh barred him. He then moved to London in 1804 and held a private surgery and school.

William Hunter founded the great school on windmill street; from 1812, Charles Bell ran it with his brother to 1825. He also served as a military surgeon and famously documented his experiences at Waterloo in words and drawings.

Charles Bell in 1824 served as the first professor of the college of surgeons in London. The royal society made him a fellow in 1826, and people bestowed him with honors and international recognition. In 1829, the new college of the king in London incorporated the school on windmill street. It invited Bell as first professor of physiology, but he resigned shortly afterwards.

The king knighted Charles Bell in 1831. In 1835, Charles Bell instrumentally created the hospital medical school of Middlesex. He in 1836 accepted the position of professor of surgery at the University of Edinburgh.

The royal Swedish academy of sciences elected Charles bell as a foreign member in 1841, be he wished to return. He died in his homeland.