Robert Bell (physician) (original) (raw)

Robert Bell FRFPSGlas (6 January 1845 – 21 January 1926) was an English physician who specialised in gynaecology and oncology and was vice-president of the International Cancer Research Society. He was also a naturopath and medical writer who published several books on cancer and other diseases. Bell was an advocate for alternative cancer treatments, including vegetarianism. His promotion of such treatments led to the oncologist Ernest Francis Bashford accusing him of quackery in the British Medical Journal; Bell successfully sued Bashford and the journal for libel.