Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (born 1714)

Percivall Pott

English surgeon (1714–1788)

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' carcinoma. Many diseases are his namesake including Pott's fracture, Pott's disease…