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This Perspective recounts a personal experience; describes an unrecorded puzzling physical sign; and details the interest the experience generated in Charles Bell and in the infamous Robert Knox, whose paths crossed. Both deserve to be better known than just for a palsy or a murder-for-bodies scandal. Bell made a seminal contribution to neurophysiology, regarded by some as important as Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. He was also a very accomplished artist, his paintings of wounded soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars among the best-ever artistic depictions of the mutilations of war. 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