William Smoult Playfair

Standard Name: Playfair, William Smoult
Used Form: W. S. Playfair

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1883: English obstetrics professor W. S. Playfair...

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1883

English obstetrics professor W. S. Playfair advocated the rest cure in The Systematic Treatment of Nerve Prostration and Hysteria.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
139-141, 273

28 April 1888: William Smoult Playfair published a Note...

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28 April 1888

William Smoult Playfair published a Note on the So-called Anorexia Nervosa in the Lancet.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls. Harvard University Press, 1988.
141, 317

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