Adopted by Debra Barnett, M.D.
An essay, medical, philosophical, and chemical, on drunkenness, and its effects on the human body, by Thomas Trotter, 1813. First American Edition.
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Trotter investigated the problem of drunkenness as a scientific and medical inquiry, which was his thesis for receiving his M.D. degree. The subject was expanded in this book. Trotter's work is generally regarded as the first medical treatise on alcoholism. Rejecting moral turpitude and sermonizing the drunkard, Trotter considered "drunkenness, strictly speaking to be a disease," more particularly "a disease of the mind."