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JOHN BELL (1763-1820)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:BELL (1763-1820)  , Scottish anatomist and surgeon, an See also:elder See also:brother of See also:Sir See also:Charles See also: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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