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Benjamin Bell, Surgeon

Scottish surgeon Benjamin Bell authored an authoritative, multi-volume, illustrated surgical textbook A System of Surgery, which was popular across Europe and in America.

Courtesy National Library of Medicine

Benjamin Bell wearing a jacket and sitting in a chair looking at the viewer.

  • Creator:

    Henry Raeburn (1756-1823)