Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1307

SIR CHARLES BELL (1774-1842) The nervous system of the human body. Embracing the papers delivered to the Royal Society on the subject of the nerves. Longman, Rees [etc.] 1830 xxiii, 238, clxxvi pp., 9 plates. 28.6 cm.

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This work, containing nearly all of Bell's most important observations on the nervous system, includes his discovery of Bell's palsy and the first description of myotonia as well as two important essays, both taken from the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London: "On the relations between the nerves of motion and of sensation, and the brain" and "On the functions of some parts of the brain, and on the relations between the brain and nerves of motion and sensation."

Cited references: Cushing B263; Garrison-Morton 1258; Waller 862; Wellcome II, p. 136 (1844 ed.)