Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Pierre Briquet
Standard Name: Briquet, Pierre
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1859: American physician William Stout Chipley...
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1859
American physician William Stout Chipley
offered the first description of sitomania, a phase of insanity characterized by an intense dread of food
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls. Harvard University Press, 1988.
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; the symptoms resembled what was later called anorexia nervosa.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls. Harvard University Press, 1988.
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Hof, Sonja van ’t. Anorexia Nervosa: The Historical and Cultural Specificity: Fallacious Theories and Tenacious "Facts". Swets and Zeitlinger, 1994.
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1859: French physician Pierre Briquet (1796-1881)...
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1859
French physician Pierre Briquet
(1796-1881) published Traité clinique et thérapeutique de l'hystérie. Briquet argued that hysteria was caused by the central nervous system rather than a disorder of the uterus, as was commonly believed...
October 1873: At the annual meeting of the Clinical Society...
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October 1873
At the annual meeting of the Clinical Society of London
, physician Sir William Withey Gull
applied his newly-coined label anorexia nervosa as the term for a female nervous disorder. That same year a French...
