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Alternative names	Signe de Charles Bell; Bell's Law; Bell-Magendie law; Bell-Magendie's Law; Batas na Bell at Magendie; Gat Charles Bell; Batas ni Charles Bell; Bell Law; Ginoong Charles Bell; Batas Charles Bell; Batas Bell at Magendie; G. Charles Bell; Law of Bell and Magendie; Sir Charles Bell; Batas na Bell-Magendie; Batas Bell Magendie; Batas Bell-Magendie; Bell; Sir Bell
Description	British anatomist, neuroscientist, surgeon, writer, physician and university teacher Scottish surgeon and artist
Date of birth/death	12 November 1774	28 April 1842
Location of birth/death	Edinburgh	Worcester
Work location	Edinburgh; London; Scotland
Authority file	: Q451727 VIAF: 2619993 ISNI: 0000000080823007 ULAN: 500009683 LCCN: n81149818 NLA: 36356551 WorldCat

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Watercolour, wounded soldier at Waterloo

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Soldier suffering from head wound {and shock?}, inscribed "Waterloo...". This is one of a series of watercolours by the surgeon Charles Bell (1774-1842) of wounded soldiers from the battle of Waterloo. Bell had hurried from London to Brussels in June 1815 to assist in treating the wounded; at the same time he filled a sketchbook with interesting cases which were subsequently worked up as watercolour paintings for teaching purposes.

This man had received a very serious gunshot wound to the skull, causing extrusion of brain tissue. The picture clearly shows the cross-shaped surgical cut of the skin around the wound, made in order to remove damaged bone fragments. Unfortunately such an injury provided an avenue for infection of the central nervous system which surgeons at the time were powerless to prevent. Sure enough this patient died six days after Bell sketched him. His staring eyes and flushed appearance are indicative of meningeal irritation, or inflammation of the lining of the brain.

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Keywords: waterloo; Charles Bell

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Short title	L0022548 Watercolour, wounded soldier at Waterloo
Author	Wellcome Library, London
Headline	L0022548 Watercolour, wounded soldier at Waterloo
Copyright holder	Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Image title	L0022548 Watercolour, wounded soldier at Waterloo Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Soldier suffering from head wound {and shock?}, inscribed "Waterloo...". This is one of a series of watercolours by the surgeon Charles Bell (1774-1842) of wounded soldiers from the battle of Waterloo. Bell had hurried from London to Brussels in June 1815 to assist in treating the wounded; at the same time he filled a sketchbook with interesting cases which were subsequently worked up as watercolour paintings for teaching purposes. This man had received a very serious gunshot wound to the skull, causing extrusion of brain tissue. The picture clearly shows the cross-shaped surgical cut of the skin around the wound, made in order to remove damaged bone fragments. Unfortunately such an injury provided an avenue for infection of the central nervous system which surgeons at the time were powerless to prevent. Sure enough this patient died six days after Bell sketched him. His staring eyes and flushed appearance are indicative of meningeal irritation, or inflammation of the lining of the brain. Watercolour 1815 By: Charles BellPublished: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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