Thomas Trotter (physician)
Encyclopedia
Thomas Trotter was a naval physician and author who was a leading medical reformer in the Royal Navy
and an ardent critic of the slave trade. Trotter was born in Melrose, Roxburghshire
and studied medicine under Alexander Monro (secundus)
in Edinburgh.
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
and an ardent critic of the slave trade. Trotter was born in Melrose, Roxburghshire
Roxburghshire
Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh is a registration county of Scotland. It borders Dumfries to the west, Selkirk to the north-west, and Berwick to the north. To the south-east it borders Cumbria and Northumberland in England.It was named after the Royal Burgh of Roxburgh...
and studied medicine under Alexander Monro (secundus)
Alexander Monro (secundus)
Alexander Monro of Craiglockhart and Cockburn was a Scottish anatomist, surgeon and medical educator. To distinguish him as the second of three generations of physicians of the same name, he is known as secundus. His students included the naval physician and abolitionist Thomas Trotter...
in Edinburgh.
Publications
- Medicina Nautica: an Essay on the Diseases of Seamen 3 vol. 1797-9.
- A View of the Nervous Temperament; being a Practical Treatise on Nervous, Bilious, Stomach, and Liver Complaints. 8 vo. 1812.
Further Reading
- Brian Vale and Griffith Edwards. 2011. Physician to the Fleet: The Life and Times of Thomas Trotter, 1760-1832. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843836049.