Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Other Eating Disorders
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“A young woman thus afflicted, her clothes scarcely hanging together on her anatomy, her pulse slow and slack, her temperature two degrees below the normal mean, her bowels closed, her hair like that of a corpse—dry and lustreless, her face and limbs ashy and cold, her hollow eyes the only vivid thing about her—this wan creature whose daily food might lie on a crown piece, will be busy with mother’s meetings, with little sister’s frocks, with university extension and with what you please else of unselfish effort, yet on what funds God only knows.”1 c h a p t e r 29
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