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Paintings, sections of spinal marrow and medullary columns by [Charles Bell]

Reference number: PT/74/2/1

Date: 1835

Description

Plate 3, figures 1-4 showing transverse sections of the spinal marrow and another section with the medullary columns parted. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Continuation of the paper on the relations between the nerves of motion and of sensation, and the brain; more particularly on the structure of the medulla oblongata and the spinal marrow' by Charles Bell.

Received by the Royal Society on 25 March 1835. Read 30 April 1835.

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PT/74/2/1
Earliest possible date
1835
Physical description
Watercolour on artists' board
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1 page
Format
Painting

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Charles Bell

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Charles Bell, Paintings, sections of spinal marrow and medullary columns by [Charles Bell], 1835, PT/74/2/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_2_1/paintings-sections-of-spinal-marrow-and-medullary-columns-by-charles-bell, accessed on 07 October 2026

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