Studies of Anorexia Nervosa

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When was the first study into Anorexia Nervosa done?

-- Rebecca Robinson (Rebecca_foxy2u@hotmail.com), October 04, 2004

Answers

William Gull is credited with the first published article outlining the condition of anorexia nervosa in 1874. An historical analysis of Gull's definition of AN can be found at the following site: http://ccp.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/9/1/149 JM

-- Jennifer S. Mills (jsmills@yorku.ca), October 05, 2004.

On January 17, 1866, English physician William Wythe Gull interviewed the first of several female patients brought to him in conditions of self-induced emaciation. The patient was "5st. 12lbs. Height, 5ft. 5in."(82lb or 37kg and 165cm). After seeing other similar patients, Gull presented the first thorough paper on anorexia nervosa, or apepsia hysterica, to the British Medical Association on October 24, 1872.

-- Warren Street (warren@cwu.edu), October 15, 2004.

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