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My Cheek Puff Sign: Bell'S Palsy, Charles Bell and Dr Robert Knox

Author(s) -

Stefan Slater

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

the journal of the royal college of physicians of edinburgh

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.275

H-Index - 26

eISSN - 2042-8189

pISSN - 1478-2715

DOI - 10.4997/jrcpe.2021.307

Subject(s) - bell's palsy , sign (mathematics) , character (mathematics) , painting , palsy , art history , perspective (graphical) , psychoanalysis , art , history , psychology , medicine , visual arts , alternative medicine , mathematics , geometry , pathology , mathematical analysis

Bell's palsy fully recovers in the great majority of cases. What may not be sufficiently appreciated is how distressing it can be. This Perspective recounts a personal experience; describes an unrecorded puzzling physical sign; and details the interest the experience generated in Charles Bell and in the infamous Robert Knox, whose paths crossed. Both deserve to be better known than just for a palsy or a murder-for-bodies scandal. Bell made a seminal contribution to neurophysiology, regarded by some as important as Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. He was also a very accomplished artist, his paintings of wounded soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars among the best-ever artistic depictions of the mutilations of war. Knox published seven books and over 100 scientific papers and is a more multidimensional and interesting character than popularly portrayed.

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