The Angier idea : November 1935 / Angier Chemical Co. Ltd.

Angier Chemical Co.

Date:: 1935

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$T H’E! AN’ Gil E-Ro2t- Data surgeon. Colles became early a masterly operator. His name is most widely known in connection with COLLES’s FRACTURE of the radius, just above the wrist, usually the result of a fall on the palm of the hand This fracture, though frequent, had escaped the notice of surgeons before his time. In 1804 he became Pro- fessor of Anatomy and Surgery in the Irish College of Surgeons, an office which he held for thirty-two years. This position gave him the opportunity of lecturing, and his lectures were pub- : Se lished in 1844 in the ABRAHAM COLLES “Dublin Medical Press. 3 He was twice President of the Irish College of Surgeons, was offered a baronetcy in 1839, but declined it. BG His d rachis PERCIVAL PoTT (1714-1788) was the only son of Percival Pott, a native of London, whose profession was that of a scrivener, was born on January 6th, 1714, in that part of Threadneedle Street, which is now covered by the Bank of England. The house was probably pulled down between 1766 and 1788, when the east and west wings were added to the Bank’s buildings. His father was his mother’s second husband. Her first husband, named Houblon (Sir John Houblon) was a young officer who was killed in action soon after marriage. Pott’s father died in 1717, leaving his widow with very.inadequate means of.support. . After Pott’s own$

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