An Account of a Particular Kind of Rupture; Frequently Attendent Upon New-Born Children and Sometimes Met With In Adults

by Percivall Pott

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First edition

London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, 1758. First Edition. Octavo size, 45 pp. Very good. Item #33331135 Sir Percivall Pott 1714-1788 is considered one of the greatest surgeons of the eighteenth century and is thought of as one of the founders of orthopaedics; he was the first scientist to connect environmental causes to cancer chimney sweeps' carcinoma . He received several honours for his

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