Sir William Withey Gull

French physiologist and phrenologist Fleury Imbert published a book on diseases in women; it initiated medical theories about eating disorders.

At the annual meeting of the Clinical Society of London , physician Sir William Withey Gull applied his newly-coined label anorexia nervosa as the term for a female nervous disorder. That same year a French...

An example reached print of the way that, despite theories of anorexia nervosa which stressed factors such as social environment and family relationships, some doctors still argued that Britain's numerous fasting women were simply insane.