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See also:POTT, PERCIVALL (1714–1788) , See also:English surgeon, was See also:born in See also:London on the 6th of See also:January 1714. He served his See also:apprenticeship with See also:Edward Nourse, assistant surgeon to St See also:Bartholomew's See also:Hospital, and in 1736 was admitted to the Barbers'
See also:Company and licensed to practise. He became assistant surgeon to St Bartholomew's in 1744 and full surgeon from 1749 till 1787. He died in London on the 22nd of See also:December 1788. The first surgeon of his See also:day in See also:England, excelling even his See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil, See also:John See also:Hunter, on the See also:practical See also:side, he introduced various important innovations in See also:procedure, doing much to abolish the extensive use of escharotics and the actual cautery that was prevalent when he began his career. A particular See also:form of fracture of the See also:ankle which he sustained through a fall from his See also:horse in 1756 is still described as Pott's fracture, and his See also:book, Some few Remarks upon Fractures and Dislocations, published in 1768 and translated into See also:French and See also:Italian, had a far-reaching See also:influence in See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:France. " Pott's disease " is a See also:spinal See also:affection of which he gave an excellent clinical description in his Remarks on that See also:kind of Palsy of the See also:Lower Limbs which is frequently found to accompany a Curvature of the Spine (1779). Among his other writings the most noteworthy are A See also:Treatise on Ruptures (1756), Observations on the Nature and Consequences of those Injuries to which the See also:Head is liable from See also:external violence (1768), and Chirurgical Observations (1775). There are several See also:editions of his collected See also:works; that published by See also:Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Earle in 1790 contains a See also:sketch of his See also:life.
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