Sir Percivall Pott—the first sports neurologist?

[...]his pulse failed . .the boy gradually recovered his senses and in due time got well" Conclusion Pott's writings, although resulting in considerable professional acrimony, were extensive and included the now famous eponymic descriptions of spinal cord compression due to tuberculosis of the spine, ankle fracture (based on the account of his own injury in 1756), and "puffy" tumour of the skull.