Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Walter Charleton

  • Walter Charleton (1619–1707)

    Walter Charleton was primarily a polymath but also a distinguished medical man. He read widely; wrote on religion, physics, physiology, psychology, geology, zoology, and botany; and is the listed author of thirty printed books and four manuscripts.1 One of his biographers mentions, without further comment, that the future physician made a sudden entry into this…