Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1308

SIR CHARLES BELL (1774-1842) The hand; its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design. W. Pickering 1833 xvi, 314 pp., illus. 21.6 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1294

This monograph on the human hand, considered from the standpoint of comparative anatomy, is unusual and perhaps unique: illustrated by the author, written in clear language, and appealing to the non-scientific mind as well as to the anatomist. It was written as the fourth of eight treatises provided for under the terms of the will of the eighth Earl of Bridgewater, who left £8,000 for a series of scientific works called The Bridgewater treatises on the power, wisdom and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation (see No. 1405). Bell's work was the best known of the Bridgewater Treatises and was frequently reprinted.

See Related Record(s): 1405

Cited references: Cushing B258 (1834 ed.); Osler 1994 (1834 ed.); Waller 861 (1837 ed.); Wellcome II, p. 136

Gift of John Martin, M.D.