Robert Trotter

Robert Trotter was one of the original twenty-one Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh when it was incorporated by royal charter on 29 November 1681. His name was written ninth on the charter. Trotter received his medical degree from the University of Leiden in 1672. His dissertation, 'De Essentia Febris', was among the first submitted to the College. Before his election he had served as a Censor of the College, and he later held two terms as President, in 1694 and 1700. In 1700 he gave a discourse before the College entitled 'De Catarrho Suffocativo'. He died in 1727.