Entry No. 455MedicineEngland
Percival Pottsurgeon
Pott’s disease and Pott’s fracture were named for this surgeon who linked spinal deformity to tuberculosis.
- Trade
- surgeon
- Field
- Medicine
- Country
- England
- Attached to
- St Bartholomew’s Hospital
- Dates
- 1714–1788
- Name origin
- Surname Pott; Pott’s disease eponym