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Biographies: John Bell |
 | | In the winter of 1804-1805, John Bell and his family embarked on a journey over the treacherous mountains of North Carolina and east Tennessee that took them to an area called “The Barren Plains,” settling in the northwest section of present-day Robertson County, Tennessee. |
 | | This usually non-fatal disorder is known as “Bell’s Palsy,” and was discovered several years after John Bell’s death. |
 | | The author feels that John Bell's symptoms, when considered as a whole, more closely mimicked "Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactacidosis, stroke," a neurological degenerative syndrome (meaning they don't really know what it is) characterized by seizures, excessive migraines, convulsions, numbness and tingling sensations, fatigue and weakness. |
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