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Paper, 'On the nervous system' by Sir Charles Bell

Reference number: PT/23/6

Date: 1840

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The illustration for this paper has been separated from the manuscript and is found at PT/74/7/2.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the nervous system'.

Received by the Royal Society on 24 February 1840. Read 2 April 1840.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 4, 1843.

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PT/23/6
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1840
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Ink on paper
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47 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Bell

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Charles Bell, Paper, 'On the nervous system' by Sir Charles Bell, 1840, PT/23/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_23_6/paper-on-the-nervous-system-by-sir-charles-bell, accessed on 13 February 2025

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