Portrait of Charles Bell

Charles Bell

Scottish physician, painter and theologian

Lived
1774–1842
Country
United Kingdom

Updated September 2026

About Charles Bell

Sir Charles Bell was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, physiologist, neurologist, artist, and philosophical theologian. Bell discovered the difference between sensory nerves and motor nerves in the spinal cord, and also described Bell's palsy.

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