Dr. Aminoff was born in England and educated at University College London. He moved to California in 1974, where he has been Professor of Neurology at the University of California School of Medicine since 1982. He is well known as a neurologist, clinical neurophysiologist, educator, clinical investigator, author, journal editor, and medical historian. He has authored books on various neurological topics as well as edited several comprehensive textbooks that are widely used and have gone into several editions.

With warmth and knowledge, Michael Aminoff provides a well-rounded summary of the life and career of Sir Charles Bell. The reader enters the world of early 19th century London, travels alongside Bell through the scientific and medical avenues of descriptive neuroanatomy, and enters several darker alleys of controversy. The journey unveils provocative historical questions and new insights related to this important, largely-forgotten scientific and medical figure.

• PrefaceAcknowledgements Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 In the Beginning Chapter 3 London and the Great Windmill Street SchoolChapter 4 Anatomy of the Expression of EmotionsChapter 5 Behind the Glories of WarChapter 6 Swings and RoundaboutsChapter 7 In and Out of the Central Nervous SystemChapter 8 The Organization of the Nervous SystemChapter 9 Clinical Observations on the Nervous System Chapter 10 For God and Country Chapter 11 New Classrooms: Old Struggles Chapter 12 The Ebbing TideChapter 13 To Each His DueAppendix 1 Books Authored by Charles BellAppendix 2 Charles Bell's Published Papers and LecturesAppendix 3 The Drawings and Paintings of Charles BellAppendix 4 Reprint of Bell's Most Famous Publication, Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain

Dr. Aminoff was born in England and educated at University College London. He moved to California in 1974, where he has been Professor of Neurology at the University of California School of Medicine since 1982. He is well known as a neurologist, clinical neurophysiologist, educator, clinical investigator, author, journal editor, and medical historian. He has authored books on various neurological topics as well as edited several comprehensive textbooks that are widely used and have gone into several editions.

With warmth and knowledge, Michael Aminoff provides a well-rounded summary of the life and career of Sir Charles Bell. The reader enters the world of early 19th century London, travels alongside Bell through the scientific and medical avenues of descriptive neuroanatomy, and enters several darker alleys of controversy. The journey unveils provocative historical questions and new insights related to this important, largely-forgotten scientific and medical figure.

• PrefaceAcknowledgements Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 In the Beginning Chapter 3 London and the Great Windmill Street SchoolChapter 4 Anatomy of the Expression of EmotionsChapter 5 Behind the Glories of WarChapter 6 Swings and RoundaboutsChapter 7 In and Out of the Central Nervous SystemChapter 8 The Organization of the Nervous SystemChapter 9 Clinical Observations on the Nervous System Chapter 10 For God and Country Chapter 11 New Classrooms: Old Struggles Chapter 12 The Ebbing TideChapter 13 To Each His DueAppendix 1 Books Authored by Charles BellAppendix 2 Charles Bell's Published Papers and LecturesAppendix 3 The Drawings and Paintings of Charles BellAppendix 4 Reprint of Bell's Most Famous Publication, Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain

Dr. Aminoff was born in England and educated at University College London. He moved to California in 1974, where he has been Professor of Neurology at the University of California School of Medicine since 1982. He is well known as a neurologist, clinical neurophysiologist, educator, clinical investigator, author, journal editor, and medical historian. He has authored books on various neurological topics as well as edited several comprehensive textbooks that are widely used and have gone into several editions.

With warmth and knowledge, Michael Aminoff provides a well-rounded summary of the life and career of Sir Charles Bell. The reader enters the world of early 19th century London, travels alongside Bell through the scientific and medical avenues of descriptive neuroanatomy, and enters several darker alleys of controversy. The journey unveils provocative historical questions and new insights related to this important, largely-forgotten scientific and medical figure.

• PrefaceAcknowledgements Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 In the Beginning Chapter 3 London and the Great Windmill Street SchoolChapter 4 Anatomy of the Expression of EmotionsChapter 5 Behind the Glories of WarChapter 6 Swings and RoundaboutsChapter 7 In and Out of the Central Nervous SystemChapter 8 The Organization of the Nervous SystemChapter 9 Clinical Observations on the Nervous System Chapter 10 For God and Country Chapter 11 New Classrooms: Old Struggles Chapter 12 The Ebbing TideChapter 13 To Each His DueAppendix 1 Books Authored by Charles BellAppendix 2 Charles Bell's Published Papers and LecturesAppendix 3 The Drawings and Paintings of Charles BellAppendix 4 Reprint of Bell's Most Famous Publication, Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain