Causes Pubertas praecox is the Latin term used by physicians from the 1790s onward.   Early pubic hair, breast, or genital development may result from natural early maturation or from several other conditions.
History Pubertas praecox is the Latin term used by physicians from the 1790s onward. Various theories and inferences on pubertal (menstrual, procreative) timing are attested since ancient times, which well into early modernity were explained on the basis of temperamental, humoral and complexional theory, and increasingly specifically, general or local "plethora". Endocrinological (hormonal) theories and discoveries are a twentieth-century development. Causes Early pubic hair, breast, or genital development may result from natural early maturation or from several other conditions.
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Various theories and inferences on pubertal (menstrual, procreative) timing are attested since ancient times, which well into early modernity were explained on the basis of temperamental, humoral and complexional theory, and increasingly specifically, general or local "plethora". Endocrinological (hormonal) theories and discoveries are a twentieth-century development.
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