Abstract

Anorexia — refusal of food for various reasons — is not only a psychiatric problem, but also interests therapeutists, endocrinologists and pediatricians. The definition, nervous anorexia substantially narrows this affection to a rather distinctive clinical picture, in which young women (considerably less often, young men) are described who stubbornly refuse to eat, and not infrequently reach a stage of pronounced cachexia.

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