Thomas Trotter was a British physician and author who was a prominent reformer of the British Royal Navy. He is best known today as an early proponent of what became known as the disease concept of alcoholism.

Career at Sea

Trotter was born about 1760 in Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He ...

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