Sir Charles Bell and the anatomy of expression.
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The Reverend William Bell of Edinburgh (died 1779) had four distinguished sons. Two (George and Robert) became professors of law. John (1763-1820), who was Edinburgh's most distinguished surgeon at the turn of the eighteenth century, was a brilliant teacher and writer and an excellent draughtsman. But the youngest, Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842), was the most famous, remembered today for his contributions to neurology and the eponym "Bell's palsy." His father died when he was 5, and he said, "I received no education but from my mother" because he hated school and learning by rote. In adult life he said he had always distrusted his memory and never could "venture on a quotation either in conversation or public discourse." Despite this he was a brilliant lecturer and, in apparent contradiction, said he could write his lecture notes on a thumb nail.'-3 His great love, which remained throughout his life, was a love of drawing. His mother, from whom both Charles and John probably inherited their outstanding artistic talent, had the good sense, despite family poverty, to employ as drawing master the painter David Allan-an odd little man with crooked legs, an ill-shaped nose, and a thatch of hair but a sharp liveliness-who gave his pupil studies from the antique and Raphael's cartoons to copy. Charles Bell adored him: "There was sunshine in the afternoon when he came," he wrote later, "He was at all times wont to salute me, 'Ha! brother Brush, let's see what you have been doing.' "4
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عنوان ژورنال:
- British medical journal
دوره 285 6357 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1982