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1868

William Withey Gull first mentions anorexia nervosa under the name “hysteric apepsia.” In 1873, Charles-Ernest Lasegue published article “On Hysterical Anorexia,” which was “much more prescient of 20th-century ideas of neurosis and of anorexia nervosa itself (Stacey, 176-83).