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Dear friends and readers,

Last night it was the nurse Elizabeth&#;s second visit to my house, both semi-emergencies stemming from my husband&#;s afflictions from Stage 4 esophageal cancer now spread all over his liver. I realize now she had become a little irritated (I had not meant to irritate her), and the usual question came: &#;Have you read all these books?&#; She had never seen so many in one house in her life. It&#;s not time for quipping and I&#;m not quick on truly responsiveness answers, so I said &#;Many many of them, though not all &#; &#; I expatiated a bit, but forgot to say I have not &#;got through them all&#; (as if that was why one owned a book, but it would be answer that might fit her preconceptions) because I reread so many. I did say I had a strong tendency to read in books, read parts of them, dip (she didn&#;t seem to take this in).

Well one book I have reread a number of times because I assigned it to 4 classes I taught over two semesters of Advanced Composition in the Natural Sciences and Technology is the powerful humane How We Die: Reflections on Life&#;s Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland. I had forgotten it has two lucid

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By Michael J. North

Today we commemorate the th anniversary of the birth of Percivall Pott (–), an English surgeon who is known as one of the founders of orthopedics and occupational health.

Percivall Pott was the son of a scrivener (or scribe) and notary in London by the same name. After receiving an education at a private school, he was apprenticed at the age of fifteen, at his request, to surgeon Edward Nourse, an assistant surgeon at St. Bartholmew’s Hospital in London. He became a liveried member of the Barber-Surgeon’s Company in and was later appointed assistant surgeon at St. Bartholomew’s and one of the first members of the Royal College of Surgeons when it was founded in

In , Pott suffered a compound fracture of the leg while riding a horse; his fellow surgeons were called in to consult and amputation was thought the only way to save his life. His mentor Edward Nourse intervened and stopped the amputation, and Pott spent three months in bed while his fracture healed successfully. It was during this time that Pott wrote his first of over 40 monographs, A Treatise on Ruptures (London, ). In , he published another article on hernias in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and the Society elected him as a fellow, and the following year he beca