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BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BELL, See also:JOHN (1763-1820) , Scottish anatomist and surgeon, an See also:elder See also:brother of See also:Sir See also:Charles Bell, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the 12th of May 1763. After completing his professional See also:education at Edinburgh, he carried on from 1790 in Surgeons' Square an anatomical lecture-See also:theatre, where, in spite of much opposition, due partly to the unconservative See also:character of his teaching, he attracted large audiences by his lectures, in which he was for atime assisted by his younger brother Charles. In 1793-1795 he published Discourses on the Nature and Cure of Wounds, and in 1800 he became involved in an unfortunate controversy with See also:James See also:Gregory (1753-1821), the See also:professor of See also:medicine at Edinburgh. Gregory in 1800 attacked the See also:system whereby the See also:fellows of the Royal See also:College of Surgeons of Edinburgh acted in rotation as surgeons at the Royal Infirmary, with the result that the younger fellows were excluded. Bell, who was among the number, composed an See also:Answer for the Junior Members (r800), and ten years later published a collection of Letters on Professional Character and See also:Manners, which he had addressed to Gregory. After his exclusion from the infirmary he ceased to lecture and devoted himself to study and practice. In 1816 he was injured by a fall from his See also:horse and in the following See also:year went to See also:Italy for the benefit of his See also:health. He died at See also:Rome on the 15th of See also:April 1820. His See also:works also included Principles of See also:Surgery (18or), See also:Anatomy of the Human See also:Body, which went through several See also:editions and was translated into See also:German, and Observations on Italy, published by his widow in 1825.

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