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Found 1 result matching 'industrial revolution' within Secondary > Curriculum Support > Periods and Themes > Themes > Health   (Clear filter)

  • Anorexia Nervosa in the nineteenth century

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    First referred to by Richard Morton (1637-98) in his Phthisiologia under the denomination phthisis nervosa as long ago as 1689, anorexia nervosa was given its name in a note by Sir William Gull (1816-90) in 1874. Gull had earlier described a disorder he termed apepsia hysterica, involving extreme emaciation without...
    Anorexia Nervosa in the nineteenth century