Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter

  • Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter (1872-1939)

    JMS PearceEast Yorks, England Polymathy was perhaps more frequent in the distant past1 when the strictures imposed by administrative managers were not yet implemented and the undoubted blessings of technology were but a remote dream. For a famous surgeon to embrace sociology is a distinctly unusual manifestation of polymathy. The two faculties, like oil and…