The Cullen Project | People [PERS ID:13]

People [PERS ID:13]

Field	Data
ID	13
Title	Mr
First Name	Benjamin
Middle Name/Initial(s)
Last Name	Bell
Maiden Name
AKA
Gender	Male
Occupation	Surgeon
Medical Professional?	Medical Professional

Birth/Death

Birth/Death
Birth (year)	1749
Date of death (year)	1806

Notes


Prominent Scottish surgeon. In DNB. See links. In 1775, he fell from his horse and sustained injuries that kept him out of practice for 2 years (Letter ID 1136).

Further Information about this person

Link
DNB	Benjamin Bell's entry on DNB

Cases that this person appears in:

Count	Case ID	Case Name
1	Case 732	Case of the Dumfries surgeon Mr James Hill who has a bladder condition.
2	Case 763	Case of the Reverend Mr Cooper [Cowper] who in 1776 is being dosed with various medicines. In 1789 he has a cough and has suffered some sort of blackout.
3	Case 1203	Case of an unnamed 64 year old man who has a bladder disorder.
4	Case 1282	Case of Mrs Leith, mother of four children, who has been sick since she last gave birth.
5	Case 1354	Case of Mr Gordon, who obtains an electrical machine to treat the pain and weakness in his lower back and stomach region, a condition considered almost paralytic by his local physician Dr John Gilchrist.
6	Case 1771	Case of 'E. K.' a female patient with menstrual problems and suspected worms.
7	Case 1792	Case of Robert 'Bob' McKenzie, a child with a swelling on his cheek and pains in the muscular parts of his thighs which impair his walking.
8	Case 1849	Case of Mr Greig who has an eruption on his hands which is in danger of spreading.
9	Case 2169	Case of John Martin with a long and complex history of headaches and, more recently, rectal pain - traced back to having had smallpox at the age of twelve.
10	Case 2536	Case of Captain William Graham, of Tynemouth Barracks, who has had a venereal disease and is now passing 'sand' in his urine, a sample of which he encloses with his first enquiry.