TIL about Percivall Pott and his discovery of the connection between scrotal cancer and chimney sweeps caused by exposure to soot

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/percivall-pott-1714-1788#:~:text=In%20the%20%201770s%2C%20Pott%20observed%20that%20scrotal,to%20identify%20some%20environmental%20factor%20as%20causing%20cancer

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