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Percivall Pott (1714-1788)
By: Carolina Abboud
| Published: May 31, 2017
Percivall Pott was a physician in England during the eighteenth century who identified soot as the cause of chimney sweeps' scrotal cancer, later…
Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788CancerChimney sweepsPott Puffy TumorCarcinoma, Squamous Cell
"The Results of Operations for the Cure of Cancer of the Breast Performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from June, 1889, to January, 1894" (1894), by William Stewart Halsted
By: Carolina Abboud
| Published: Jun 15, 2017
In 1894, William Stewart Halsted published The Results of Operations for the Cure of Cancer of the Breast Performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital…
LiteratureJohns Hopkins HospitalBreast--CancerMastectomyMammectomy
William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922)
By: Carolina Abboud
| Published: Jul 23, 2017
William Stewart Halsted was a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, during the late 1800s and early 1900s. In 1894 Halsted…
MastectomySurgeryAsepsis and antisepsisBreast NeoplasmsBlood Transfusion