Early descriptions of eating disorders in the Norwegian medical literature.
By the end of the nineteenth century, anorexia nervosa had acquired a certain amount of recognition in the medical literature in many countries. In Norway, however, little attention had been paid to this eating disorder. Some anorexic-like conditions can be found in case reports on "hysteria" in children, of which the article by Selmer, from 1891, is quoted in extenso.
Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway.
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