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Original Fellows of the Royal Society
1660-Today The Royal Society AKA The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
Percivall Pott
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1660-Today The Royal Society AKA The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
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Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital
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1775 In 1775, Pott found an association between exposure to soot and a high incidence of scrotal cancer (later found to be a type of squamous cell carcinoma) in chimney sweeps.
1775 It was that long ago-in 1775, to be exact-that the first cause of cancer was discovered. It was coal soot, which an English physician by the name of Percival Pott concluded was the cause of a particular form of cancer in chimney sweeps.
1788 Chimney Sweepers Act 1788
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