ANOREXIA NERVOSA
Authors: E. PERRY  MCCULLAGH, WALTER R.  TUPPER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1940)

Article1 November 1940ANOREXIA NERVOSAE. PERRY MCCULLAGH, M.D., F.A.C.P., WALTER R. TUPPER, M.D.E. PERRY MCCULLAGH, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, WALTER R. TUPPER, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-14-5-817 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn 1868 Sir William Gull,1 in an address at Oxford, first referred to a "peculiar form of disease occurring mostly in young women, and characterized by extreme emaciation." He presented a paper on the subject in 1874, in which he stated that the origin of the disease is "to be sought in the disturbance of the mind and a prolonged insufficiency of food and nothing more." 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