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BELL, Charles. The Nervous System of the Human Body, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and J. Taylor, 1830. 4°, half title, 9 engraved plates, including one double-page, all by James Basire and J. Stewart after drawings by the author (plates lightly spotted and browned, folding plate with clean tear, lightly spotted throughout), modern cloth. Second edition. GM 1258; Norman 173.
"Records Bell's demonstration that the fifth cranial nerve has a sensory-motor function, his discovery of "Bell's nerve" and the motor nerve of the face, lesion of which causes facial paralysis (Bell's palsy) ... Also includes the first description of myotonia" (GM).
"Records Bell's demonstration that the fifth cranial nerve has a sensory-motor function, his discovery of "Bell's nerve" and the motor nerve of the face, lesion of which causes facial paralysis (Bell's palsy) ... Also includes the first description of myotonia" (GM).