Bell, Sir Charles, an eminent surgeon and anatomist, born in Edinburgh, where he became professor of Surgery; distinguished chiefly for his discoveries in connection with the nervous system, which he published in his “Anatomy of the Brain” and his “Nervous System,” and which gained him European fame; edited, along with Lord Brougham, Paley's “Evidences of Natural Religion” (1774‒1842).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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