A View of the Nervous Temperament

Troy, N.Y.: Wright, Goodenow & Stockwell, 1808. First American edition (First was printed in Newcastle, UK the preceding year). 338, [1]pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Polished contemporary American calf. A very pretty copy. First American edition (First was printed in Newcastle, UK the preceding year). 338, [1]pp. 1 vols. 12mo. 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. Hunter & Macalpine p. 588; Austin 1929. Not in Waller