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Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter (1872-1939)

JMS Pearce East Yorks, England   Fig 1: Wilfred Trotter 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. […]