The first Australian case description of anorexia nervosa.
To the best of our knowledge, H.E. Astles was the first Australian physician who, in a lecture in 1882, paid explicit attention to the illness of anorexia nervosa. We reproduce his paper because of its historical value, which we underline in our comments.
Vandereycken
W
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University of Leuven, Belgium.
Beaumont
P J
PJ
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000266:history*; D001315:Australia; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans