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Description: | s.d. inscr. base "BENJAMIN BELL / 1792 / Tassie F" CRE TASSIE. James; (Scottish; 1735-1799) 1792 Benjamin Bell was educated at Dumfries and in 1764 apprenticed to James Hill, surgeon of Dumfries. In 1766 he entered the Edinburgh medical school where Joseph Black and John Gregory were among his teachers. He became a fellow of the College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1770 and then studied surgery in London and Paris. Bell was appointed surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh in 1772. His most important work A System of Surgery appeared in six volumes between 1783 and 1788 and he wrote several medical textbooks. Bell also wrote essays on taxation, the national debt, the corn laws and agricultural reform. Bell was known for his "kindly disposition?giving great assurance and confidence to the sick".
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