Dr Benjamin Bell (1749 - 1806) was a Scottish surgeon. Bell was born in Dumfries and educated in that town. His family owned Blackett House in Middlebie Parish (Dumfriesshire), which Bell was later to sell to fund the education of himself and his family. He became an apprentice to a surgeon in Dumfries, before moving to Edinburgh in [1766] to study medicine at the University there under the tutelage of Alexander Monro (Secundus; 1733 - 1817), … Wikipedia
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