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Percivall Pott
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Percivall Pott was an English surgeon, one of the founders of orthopaedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen, namely chimney sweeps' carc
Percivall Pott, engraved from an original picture by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, National Library of Medicine, Images from the History of Medicine.
Percivall Pott, engraved from an original picture by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, National Library of Medicine, Images from the History of Medicine.
Percivall's son, Joseph Holden Pott, Archdeacon of London, 1843 mezzotint by John Porter
Percivall's son, Joseph Holden Pott, Archdeacon of London, 1843 mezzotint by John Porter
Diagram from the chirurgical works of Percivall Pott
Diagram from the chirurgical works of Percivall Pott
James Earle
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Sir James Earle was a celebrated British surgeon, renowned for his skill in lithotomy.
Percivall Pott
…trends of his time, Pott did not agree with severe treatments and heroic medicine but rather preferred gentler forms. Percivall Pott's son-in-law, James Earle, described Pott's surgery as being "divested of great part of its horrors, became, comparatively, a pleasing study." In addition to surgery, Pott's…
Portrait. Credit: Wellcome Collection
Portrait. Credit: Wellcome Collection