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might get a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa.
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People have written a book--a book has been written
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about whether some of these folks
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might be viewed as having a wholly anorexia.
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They--like St. Catherine of Siena,
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what we know about her is a little suggestive of
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the eating disturbances we see today in our clinics.
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In 1689, Richard Morton, on a book called
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A Treatise on Consumptions, consumption came to
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mean tuberculosis but way back in 1689.
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It probably covered a whole host of infectious diseases
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and all kinds of wasting conditions.