The earliest report linking environmental (occupational) exposure to adverse human male reproductive effects dates back to1775 when an English physician, Percival Pott, reported a high incidence of scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps. This observation led to safety regulations in the form of bathing requirements for these workers. The fact that male-mediated reproductive harm in humans may be a re...

The recent realization that the majority of human carcinomas are induced by chemical agents has raised concern all over the world as to the possible induction of these tumors by environmental factors, in part derived from industrial sources. Both industrial production of chemicals as well as their pollution of the environment have markedly increased and present a hazard not only for workers in ...

Power utilities worldwide commonly use the radial distribution system because of its advantages being simple in structure and having relatively inexpensive installation costs. It has a disadvantage that power supply reliability is low load side fault section will suffer from an outage event system. However, recently, with ICT (Information Communication Technologies) development, required to be ...

Composite lymphoma (CL) is a very rare phenomenon. To date, only few cases of composite mantle cell (MCL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small (SLL) have been reported by Sun et al. (Cytometry B Clin Cytom 2018;94(1):148-50), Hoeller (Hum Pathol 2013;44(1):110-21), Papathomas 2012;43(4):467-80). In the majority CL cases, clonality relationship was not examined could be proven. So far...

The article presents the results of an interdisciplinary study burial from Vsekhsvyatskii Orthodox necropolis (Krasnoyarsk, 18th–19th centuries). excavations were carried out by Yu. A. Grevtsov in 2021.The buried individual had a pathological curvature spine sagittal plane, more than 90 degrees. purpose this work is to using methods archaeology, anthropology, forensic medicine, and science. Obs...

In many cases of Pott’s disease conservative measures give satisfactory results, but the long period of treatment necessary causes the patient considerable inconvenience and loss of earnings. The need for more rapid cure has been recognised and many attempts have been made to achieve this. in his work on paraplegia Pott (1779) wrote: “ The remedy for this dreadful disease consists merely in pro...

INTRODUCTION Pott's disease is a common entity in our hospital. The authors report their experience in the surgical treatment of Pott disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS This is a retrospective study including all patients who underwent surgery for Pott's disease in our institution between November 1999 and November 2004. RESULTS Forty-three patients were included, including 23 men and 20 women (...

One of the largest and most varied acquisitions ofWestern Manuscripts in 1992 came as a result of the generosity of the British Medical Association, when fourteen miscellaneous volumes and some loose papers were transferred to the Wellcome Institute from the BMA Library in Tavistock House.' Many of these manuscript books contained lecture notes by medical students-taken from John and James Greg...

To cite: Williams SP, Wilkie MD. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014204061 DESCRIPTION First described by Sir Percival Pott in 1768, Pott’s puffy tumour is a subperiosteal abscess of the frontal bone associated with underlying frontal osteomyelitis. It occurs most frequently as an adverse sequelae of head trauma but can also arise in the setting o...