First Psychiatric Book Published in America
A View of the Nervous Temperament.
Troy, N.Y: Wright, Goodenow & Stockwell, 1808.
Price: $1,250.00
About the item
First American edition (First was printed in Newcastle, UK the preceding year). 338, [1]pp. 1 vols. 12mo. First Psychiatric Book Published in America. Polished contemporary American calf. A very pretty copy. Hunter & Macalpine p. 588; Austin 1929. Not in Waller.
Item #303517
This first American edition reprints the text from the second British edition. Trotter was a Scottish naval surgeon, who wrote the first medical treatise on alcoholism, which he considered a menatl disease.
