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Lasègue's editorial riposte to Gull's contributions on anorexia nervosa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Joseph A. Silverman
Joseph A. Silverman*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA
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1Address for correspondence: Professor Joseph A. Silverman, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Pediatric Service of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 620 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Synopsis

One week after Sir William Gull read his seminal report on anorexia nervosa to the Clinical Society of London, a brief account was published (Anonymous, 1873). In Paris, Charles Lasègue, editor of Archives Générales de Médecine read the report and printed an immediate editorial riposte, parts of which will be quoted in this communication.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , May 1992 , pp. 307 - 308
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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