Background
He was born on January 30, 1864 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Francis Cresson Potts and Emma (Bilger) Potts. He was a direct descendant of David Potts who settled in Pennsylvania.
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Electricity : Its Medical And Surgical Applications, Including Radiotherapy And Phototherapy
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Nervous and mental diseases, for students and practitioners
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Charles Sower Potts
Edit ProfileEducation
He was graduated from Central High School, Philadelphia, in 1882, and received the degree of M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1885.
Career
Following his internship in the Philadelphia General Hospital, he began to practise medicine in the coal-mining communities near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, but after several years he returned to Philadelphia to assist Dr. Horatio C. Wood in the neurological department of the University of Pennsylvania.
He became professor of nervous diseases in the Medico-Chirurgical College in 1907, and held the same position in the Graduate Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania when it absorbed the former institution. He was attending neurologist to the Graduate Hospital of the University, the Lankenau, and the Philadelphia General Hospital, and was consulting neurologist to the Eastern Penitentiary and the Atlantic County Hospital for the insane.
He was the author of Nervous and Mental Diseases, A Manual for Students and Practitioners (1900, 1908, 1913). He also wrote an account of the witch craze in Salem for the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, May 1920.
He was a member of the varsity crew of the University of Pennsylvania in 1884-85, and during good weather, it was a familiar sight to see his racing shell on the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park.
His robust good health suddenly failed him after he reached the age of sixty-six, and in the fall of 1929 he was confined to a hospital where he died of a cerebral condition in the following February.
Achievements
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Charles Sower Potts was widely known as a good teacher, an excellent clinician and consultant. He made many contributions to neurology, most of them in the organic field which claimed his interest rather than the study of functional disease. Among the most important are the following: "A Case of Progressive Muscular Atrophy Occurring"; "Pseudo-Sclerosis, with a Report of a Case with Necropsy" and others.
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Electricity : Its Medical And Surgical Applications, Including Radiotherapy And Phototherapy
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Nervous and mental diseases, for students and practitioners
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Electricity : Its Medical And Surgical Applications, Including Radiotherapy And Phototherapy
Interests
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His interests outside his profession were many and varied. He enjoyed doing historical research in the colonial history of Pennsylvania and the New England states, he was a student of literature and possessed a very extensive general library, and he was deeply interested in music. Collecting phonograph records was a particular hobby and it was his custom for many years to give concerts every few days for the nervous patients of the hospitals with which he was associated.
Connections
There is no information about his marital status.
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Nationality
American