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2. Percivall Pott - Wikipedia

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   Percivall Pott, engraved from an original picture by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, National Library of Medicine, Images from the History of Medicine.. Percivall Pott (6 January 1714, in London – 22 December 1788) was an English surgeon, one of the founders of orthopaedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen, namely chimney sweeps ...

3. Chimney sweep - Wikipedia

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   A chimney sweep is a person who inspects then clears soot and creosote from chimneys. The chimney uses the pressure difference caused by a hot column of gas to create a draught and draw air over the hot coals or wood enabling continued combustion. Chimneys may be straight or contain many changes of direction. During normal operation, a layer of ...

4. Chimney sweeps' carcinoma - Wikipedia

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   Chimney sweeps' cancer, also called soot wart or scrotal cancer, is a squamous cell carcinoma of the scrotum. It has the distinction of being the first reported form of occupational cancer, and was initially identified by Percivall Pott in 1775. [1] It was initially noticed as being prevalent amongst chimney sweeps.

5. Chimney swift - Wikipedia

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   Baby chimney swifts are altricial—naked, blind and helpless when they hatch. Fledglings leave the nest after a month. [57] The average chimney swift's life span is 4.6 years, [60] but one is known to have lived more than 14 years. It was originally banded as an adult, and was recaptured in another banding operation some 12.5 years later. [61]

6. Talking cure - Wikipedia

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   The Talking Cure and chimney sweeping were terms Bertha Pappenheim, [1] known in case studies by the alias Anna O., used for the verbal therapy given to her by Josef Breuer. They were first published in Studies on Hysteria (1895). As Ernest Jones put it, "On one occasion she related the details of the first appearance of a particular symptom ...

7. Chim Chim Cher-ee - Wikipedia

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   Songwriter (s) Richard M. Sherman. Robert B. Sherman. " Chim Chim Cher-ee " is a song from Mary Poppins, the 1964 musical film, [1] and is also featured in the 2004 Mary Poppins musical. The song won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2005, Julie Andrews included this song as part of Julie Andrews Selects Her Favorite Disney Songs.