Thomas Trotter (physician)
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Thomas Trotter (1760-1832) was a naval physician and author who was a leading medical reformer in the Royal Navy and an ardent critic of the slave trade.[1] Trotter was born in Melrose, Roxburghshire and studied medicine under Alexander Monro (secundus) in Edinburgh.
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- ^ Wallace, J. (2004). Trotter, Thomas (bap. 1760, d. 1832). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press
