The doctor and the historian.(Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne)(Book review)

THE DOCTOR AND THE HISTORIAN Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne, by Hugh Trevor-Roper; Yale University Press, 2006, $59.95.

IN HIS Times Literary Supplement review of July 16, David Wootton concluded:

 
   no young scholar would want to write this book, 
   and perhaps no young scholar could. But if you 
   want to understand the age of religious wars, or if 
   you want to be reminded that the purpose of a great 
   history book, as of a great play or a great novel, is 
   to transform how you see the world around you, 
   then you should read this last relic of a lost age. 

Wootton's pessimism about history at the moment ...