title: Lasègue's editorial riposte to Gull's contributions on anorexia nervosa.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Silverman
mesh_terms: D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000266:history*; D004739:England; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D013577:Syndrome