Bell, Luther Vose
physician, surgeon, legislator, author, was born Dec. 20, 1806, in Chester, N. H. He was the fourth son of Gov.
Bell, of New Hampshire, a noted lawyer and congressman.
In 1823 he graduated from Bowdoin college; studied medicine, and attained success in that profession. He was elected a member of the New Hampshire state legislature; and was appointed one of the special committee for making some provision for the insane. He was the author of numerous dissertations on medical subjects; and to him belongs the honor of having first brought the notice of the medical profession to a new form of disease, which has since been designated as Bell's disease, peculiar to the insane. He died Feb. 11, 1862, near Budd's Ferry, Md.