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ORIGINAL PAPERS ON BELL'S PALSY BY SIR CHARLES BELL Takeo Kobayashi 1 pp.697-700
Published Date 1977/9/20
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1492208553
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 The author comments on the original papers of idiopathic facial palsy by Sir Charles Bell. Bell is well known in physiological and pathological research in nervous system. Until his era (ca 1830), the true innervation of the facial muscles had not been known. He identified the facial nerve and probed that this nerve innervates the facial muscles through meticulous animal experiments.

 Bell reported cases of facial palsy due to various causes, such as abcess of the mastoid, periauricular tumor, head injury etc.. Ever since then, the facial palsy had been called Bell's palsy.

 Apart from the above cases that had definite etiology, he reported facial palsies that had no evident causes. He described a case in which an exposure to cold might have had a role. Susequently, the cold theory was established as an etiology of idiopathic facial palsy, which was called in French literature "paralysie faciale a frigore" and "rheumatische Lähmung" in German literature. It is strange that the term, Bell's palsy, nowadays has widely used as a synonym of idiopathic facial palsy.


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