Thomas Trotter

Physician to the Fleet

• Author(s): Brian Vale, Griffith Edwards

• Categories: Biography & Autobiography

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2011
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• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Details Thomas Trotter's important contributions, as a naval surgeon and after, to the eradication of scurvy and typhus, to the study of addiction, and to improved health and safety in mines. Thomas Trotter, after studying medicine at Edinburgh, began his naval career as a surgeon's mate in 1779 and saw continuous service up to the peace of 1802, rising as a result of great abilities and the right patronage to become Physician to the Channel Fleet, and being present at the great battles of Dogger Bank in 1781 and the Glorious First of June in 1794. As Physician to the Channel Fleet, he was a major player in the conquest of scurvy and the control of typhus and smallpox in the navy. After the ...

A Letter to Thomas Trotter M.D. occasioned by his proposal for destroying the fire and choak damps of coal mines; containing chemical and general strictures on that work

• Author(s): Henry DEWAR

• Categories: Coal mines and mining

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1805
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Notes and Queries

• Categories: Electronic journals

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1896
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Report, 1840-1908

• Author(s): Great Britain. Public Records. Deputy Keeper

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1875
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland

• Author(s): Scotland. Privy Council

• Categories: Scotland

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1878
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• Publisher: Unknown

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