A View of the Nervous Temperament: Being a practical inquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those Diseases.

TROTTER, Thomas

Edité par Troy, NY: Wright, Goodenow & Stockwell,, 1808

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Troy, NY: Wright, Goodenow & Stockwell, 1808. First American Edition. Leather. No Jacket. 338, [1] pp. 12mo. - over 7¾" - 9¾" Full period brown calf, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label (light wear; text has some browning and foxing - especially the title page). A nice copy in period dress. THE FIRST PSYCHIATRIC BOOK PUBLISHED IN AMERICA. The first American edition reprints the second British Edition text of the previous year. Trotter was a Scottish naval surgeon who wrote the first medical treatise on Alcoholism, which he considered a mental disease. Hunter & Macalpine p. 588; Austin 1929. Not in Waller.

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• Titre: A View of the Nervous Temperament: Being a practical inquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those Diseases.
• Éditeur: Troy, NY: Wright, Goodenow & Stockwell,
• Date de parution: 1808
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket