Charles Bell made many important contributions to neurology,1 2 anatomy, and to the world of art. He is commonly remembered for his 1821 paper3 to the Royal Society, which provided a brief but unmistakable description of facial paralysis of lower motor neuron type. He clearly separated it from the palsy of upper motor neuron lesions, although this terminology was not then in use. His account of the upturning of the globe was graphic and important, and received more attention from Gowers and later Kinnier Wilson than his account of facial palsy. He gave his observations in a lecture for the Royal Society in 1826. He provided a more detailed description in 1829.4 His famous paper records a Mr Daniel Quick, gored by a bull, and several other, mostly traumatic causes: “ . . .a man shot with a pistol ball, which entered the ear and tore across the portio dura at its root. . . .The next instance was in a man wounded by the horn of an ox. The point of the horn entered under the angle of the jaw and came out before …