Scrotal cancer, although largely thought to have been identified by Percival Pott, had been thought to have been described nearly 40 years before Pott's "Chirurgical Observations" as a "canker of privities" per documentation in the burial records of the Parish of St. Botolph without Aldgate from 1589 to 1599 [REF].
As a surgeon, Pott was well respected and often assisted fellow surgeons.