Percivall pott biography examples

Biography

• Born 6 January Threadneedle Street, London (present site of the Bank of England)
• &#; Apprenticed toEdward Nourse (), surgeon at St. Bartholomew&#;s Hospital (paying £ for the seven years apprenticeship.)
• &#; Grand Diploma by the Court of Examiners of the Barber Surgeons Company.
• &#; Assistant-surgeoncy at St.

  Bartholomew&#;s Hospital

• Surgeon to St. Bartholomew&#;s Hospital
• &#; Master of Anatomy at Surgeons&#; Hall.
• &#; Fellow of the Royal Society
• &#; Honorary Diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Died 22 December &#;My lamp is almost extinguished: I hope it has burned for the benefit of others&#;

Medical Eponyms

Pott fracture ()

Fracture of the distal fibula, 2–3 inches proximal to the ankle joint.

Effectively a fracture-dislocation of the ankle, involving a fracture of the fibula, disruption of the deltoid ligaments with an intact tibiofibular ligament resulting in lateral displacement of the talus.

Pott puffy tumour

Subperiosteal