An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical, On Drunkenness and Its Effects On the Human Body

Boston, Philadelphia : Bradford et Read, A. Finley, 1813. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. [First American edition of the First Medical Treatise on Alcoholism and its treatment] First published in 1804 in London, the work is rare in all early editions. Bound in contemporary full calf. Rebacked. New spine leather over original boards. Gilt ruled. Burgandy morocco spine… Read more about this item

Boston; and Philadelphia: Bradford & Read; A. Finley, 1813. Hardcover. Good. First American edition: "The first Philadelphia edition, corrected and enlarged." Octavo. 203, [1]pp., with publisher A. Finley's advertisements printed on the final page. In the original publisher's paper covered boards. Contemporary owner's ink name stamp on title page and signature on front free endpaper, and associated neat… Read more about this item

NY:: Routledge,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0415006368 . Part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series. Edited with an introduction by Roy Porter. First edition thus. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

London: Routledge, 1989. First edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 203

London: Routledge, 1988. xliii, 203pp. Or green cloth in jacket. Reprint of this early work on alcoholism originally published in 1804. Volume in Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Paperback / softback. New. It was during the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the problem of chronic alcohol dependence in modern society and its consequent medical effects emerged. The topic of drunkenness figures prominently in the thinking and writing of social reformers, politicians, theorists, medical practitioners, and psychiatrists. Eventually, by the mid-nineteenth century, 'alcoholism' was… Read more about this item

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Routledge, 2015. Paperback. New. 264 pages. 8.30x5.40x0.70 inches.