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POTT, Percivall. The Chirurgical Works of Percivall Pott, F.R.S. And Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
London: Printed for T. Lowndes, J. Johnson ,G. Robinson, T. Cadell, T. Evans, W. Fox, J. Bew, and S. Hayes, 1779. In three volumes. A new edition (so stated). Tall 8vo., recently rebound in full brown panelled calf, raised bands, gilt compartments, leather spine label (after the period), viii, (1)-504; iv, (1)-532; iv, 3-426, (28)pp. index, (1)p. directions to binder, (3)pp. ads, 16pp. ads. Lacking the half-title in volume 3. With twelve engraved plates. The upper corners of 14 pages at the end of volume two have been professionally repaired, lacking the half-title in volume 3, some scattered foxing o/w a near fine copy in an attractive binding after the period.
Percivall Pott [1718-1788] English surgeon and one of the founders of orthopaedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen. Pott ‘introduced various important innovations in procedure, doing much to abolish the extensive use of escharotics and the actual cautery that was prevalent when he began his career. A particular form of fracture of the ankle which he sustained through a fall from his horse in 1756 is still described as Pott's fracture, and his book, Some few Remarks upon Fractures and Dislocations, published in 1768 and translated into French and Italian, had a far-reaching influence in Great Britain and France. "Pott's disease" is a spinal affection of which he gave an excellent clinical description in his Remarks on that kind of Palsy of the Lower Limbs which is frequently found to accompany a Curvature of the Spine (1779). Among his other writings the most noteworthy are A Treatise on Ruptures (1756), and Observations on the Nature and Consequences of those injuries to which the Head is liable from external violence (1768) (Ency. Brit. 11th). The above title, Chirurgical Works was first published in 1775 (the only quarto edition) and then was republished in 1779, 1783, and 1790. This work contains that latter two works along with An Account of the Method of obtaining a perfect or radical Cure of the Hydrocele by Means of a Seton.