THE BIOGRAPHY OF DOCTOR D. R. MOORE….THE FIRST EMINENT PSYCHIATRIST OF TEXAS AND THE SOUTHWEST.

Waco: Printed for the Timberlawn Foundation, Inc. by the Texian Press, 1966. xiv,182pp. Index. Photographs. Bibliography. Notes. Appendices (4). Bound in red leather with the title in gilt on the cover and spine. Satin paste down & fly. First edition, limited edition of 25. SIGNED. Additionally inscribed to Vernon Coe, a prominent Dallas attorney and one of the founders of Thompson and Coe. Fine copy in its original mylar dust wrapper (no dust jacket issued). David Richard Wallace, pioneer physician and psychiatrist, was born in 1825 near Greenville, North Carolina. He graduated from Wake Forest College and then studied at New York City Medical College where he received his medical degree. Wallace arrived in Texas in 1856 and in 1862 joined the Fifteen Texas Infantry as a surgeon. After the war he was appointed superintendent of the State Lunatic Asylum (later the Austin State Hospital) and served in that position until 1879. Four years later Wallace became superintendent of the North Texas Lunatic Asylum (later Terrell State Hospital) until his resignation in 1891. After his resignation, Wallace specialized in nervous diseases and was frequently consulted on the treatment of the mentally ill. Dr. Wallace, a man of warmth and compassion, was a ground breaker in the field of psychiatry. In a day when the practice of psychiatry consisted primarily of custodial care, he demonstrated that a psychiatrically ill individual is responsive to his environment and the people who create it. Ultimately, he would be recognized as one of the seven outstanding psychiatrists in the nation. In writing the book the author relied almost exclusively on his autobiography, daily journal, personal correspondence and official documents.