W. A. Potts

William Alexander Potts (1 May 1866 – 23 July 1939) M.D., M.R.C.S. was a British pharmacologist, physician and medical writer.

Potts was born at Rugby on 1 May 1866. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and University of Edinburgh. He graduated M.B. in 1895 and M.D. with honours in 1898. He was resident medical officer at East Riding Mental Hospital, resident surgeon to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and resident physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children.

Potts died in Edgbaston.

Selected publications

The Advantages of a Purin-Free Diet (1905) Notes on Purin-Free Diets (1906) The Feeding of Young Children (1906) A Purin-Free Dietary (1908) Mentally Deficient Children: Their Treatment and Training (1916) The Mentally Defective and the Unstable Brought Before the Courts (1920) Crime and Delinquency (1929) Mental Deficiency and Venereal Disease (1933)