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Image: Gull - Anorexia Miss B

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Description: This image is a reproduction of two photographs taken around 1868 and 1872 (photographer unknown). It depicts Miss B, an unnamed patient of William Withey Gull, before and after treatment for anorexia nervosa. Gull used these images to illustrate his 1873 paper "Anorexia Nervosa (Apepsia Hysterica, Anorexia Hysterica)" in which anorexia nervosa was described and which first established the name of the condition
Title: Gull - Anorexia Miss B
Credit: Collection of the Published Writings of Sir William Gull, MD
Author: William Withey Gull, Bart, M.D., F.R.S.; edited by Theodore Dyke Acland, M.D.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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