The nature and the physiology of the phenomena were described independently by the British anatomical scientist Sir Charles Bell and the French physiologist François Magendie, later confirmed by the German physiologist Johannes Peter Müller.
Bell's Law or Bell-Magendie Law, a law demonstrated by Charles Bell, a Scottish surgeon, describing and distinguishing two types of roots of the spinal nerves, the motor and the sensory.
Named after Scottish anatomist Charles Bell, who first described it, Bell's palsy is the most common acute mononeuropathy (disease involving only one nerve) and is the most common cause of acute facial nerve paralysis (>80%).
Hornak Spoutz has been responsible for placing works of art into the permanent collections of museums throughout the United States by many significant American artists including Franz Kline, Robert Indiana, Lowell Nesbitt, Howard Kanovitz, Tom Blackwell, Charles Bell, Joan Mitchell and others.
Sir Charles Bell described Shatra as follows: "He showed people skills and a political power that surprised many at the conference. His simple dignity and charming way of doing things made him beloved by all who knew him in Simla and Delhi".
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His mother was Isabel, daughter of Charles Bell, J.P., of Woolsington Hall, Northumberland, England.
He was the oldest of five children born to carpenter Charles Bell (1881–c. 1958) and Edith Bell, both from Yorkshire, England.