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and all kinds of wasting conditions.
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He described an 18-year-old girl,
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was he called nervous consumption
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she sure sounds like she had anorexia nervosa.
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He didn't have the benefit of the DSM criteria
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nor did Sir William Gall and Charles Leseque,
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an Englishman and a Frenchman;
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but these folks over a century ago
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described in the medical literature cases--
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like a half a dozen cases each--of young women
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who clearly had what we call anorexia nervosa.
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It was Sir William Gall's name