Charles Harrison Stedman

Charles Harrison Stedman (1805–1866) was one of the original founders of the first national medical society in the United States, the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, now the American Psychiatric Association.

Stedman noted in the book's Preface that he revised the American edition since he believed the London translation from the original French was hurried, contained some ambiguity, and had typographical errors.

Stedman left the Boston Lunatic Asylum in 1851 to return to his surgical practice.

Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1834. http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/66311020R Spurzheim, J. G., and Charles H. Stedman (rev).

Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1836. http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/66311030R American Neurological Association, and Frederick Tilney, ed.

The Mentally Ill in America: A History of their Care and Treatment from Colonial Times.