Percivall Pott
British surgeon
Died when: 74 years 351 days (899 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Percivall Pott (6 January 1714, in London – 22 December 1788) was an English surgeon, one of the founders of orthopaedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen.
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