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Percivall Pott (Wikipedia)
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Percivall Pott (6 January 1714, in London - 22 December 1788) was an English surgeon, one of the founders of orthopaedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen, namely chimney sweeps' carcinoma.
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