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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Percivall Pott
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(1714–88)
Surgeon at *Bart's whose treatises on the practice of surgery were influential in their time, but who is remembered for a fracture of bones in the ankle – of a kind known now by his name – which he himself suffered when he was thrown from his horse in Southwark in 1756.
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