When1: 1806
When2: 1833
Who: Charles Bell [Bell, Charles]
What: anatomist/surgeon
Where: London, England
works\ Essay on the Anatomy of the Expressions or The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression as Connected with Fine Arts [1806]; Animal Mechanics or Proofs of Design in the Animal Frame [1828]; Nervous System of the Human Body [1833]; Hand: its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as evincing Design [1833]
Detail: He lived 1774 to 1842, studied reciprocal innervation and haptic perception, and related muscles to facial expressions. Spinal-nerve anterior and posterior roots have separate functions {Bell-Magendie law, Bell}: dorsal root is sensory, and ventral root is motor [1822].
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