Trotter, Thomas. An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical, on Drunkenness, and its effects on the Human Body. 203 pp. 17,5 x 11 cm. Modern maroquin leather (lightly dusty). Philadelphia, A. Finley, 1813. First American edition. Thomas Trotter (1760-1832) was a physician in the Royal Navy and a dedicated critic of the slave trade. He is considered the main founder of the Medicina Nautica. – Due to paper tanned, sticky and moist stained.