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Title	System of operative surgery : founded on the basis of anatomy, Vol. 1
Subject	Surgery, Operative.
Creator	Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842
Description	Charles Bell, born in Edinburgh, was a surgeon who served with the British Army at the Battle of Waterloo. In 1767, Bell took over the school of anatomy in Great Windmill Street, founded by William Hunter that same year. A professor of surgery at the University of Edinburgh, he is best known for his medical illustration and for his pioneering study of the human nervous system. He accurately described the thoracic nerve, or, "Bell's nerve;" he discovered that a lesion of the seventh facial nerve causes paralysis, "Bell's palsy;" and he demonstrated the function of spinal nerves, i.e. that motor function relates to anterior roots and sensory function relates to dorsal roots, the "Bell-Magendie law." In 1807, Bell published his System of Operative Surgery, where he described surgical operations based on personal experience. As an appendix to this work, Bell added an essay on gun-shot wounds, based on knowledge he acquired as a surgeon for the wounded of Waterloo.
Date	1812
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OCR Text	Show EXPLANATION THE PLATES. PLATE 1, ‘l . - . \ - s 1* mum: 1. represents in a. sketch the ﬁrst meismn (n the operation tor sneurism in the bend of the arm. A, the sac of the aneurisni, formed of the fascia and condensed cellular membrane. The contracted state of the arm and ﬁngers, characteristic of this ancu‘ W mum rism, is represented" ['20. 2. is a still freer sketch of the manner of lifting the artery on the probe, from the irregular bottom of the cavity in which it lies. A, The probe. B, The artery. C, The irregular cavity, formed by the driving of the blood under the fascia. PLATE II. {eprcsenting the manner of examining and applying caustic to strictum 131' the urethra. F1 G. 1. represents a section of the urethra, as in a simple stricture, with the probe introduced. As soon as the head of the probe has passed the stricture, the wire moves easily onwards, ascertaining that it is a simple stricture. 1‘! c. 2. represents the probe passed into an irregular callosity ofthe canal; where, by the continued resistance to the head of the probe, we know that the stricture is not simple. I'm. 3. shews the insufﬁciency of the bougie to ascertain anything more than merely the presence of a stricture.
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