William Stout Chipley
Dr. William Stout Chipley (October 16, 1810 – February 11, 1880) was an early American psychologist.
Chipley was born in Lexington, Kentucky, October 18, 1810, the only son of the Reverend Stephen Chipley, a pioneer of Lexington. William Chipley graduated from the
When he took charge of the Eastern Kentucky Insane Asylum in 1855, he found that institution overcrowded with incurables, epileptics, and feeble minded, huddled together without any attempt at classification and separation. These defects were not only remedied by Dr. Chipley, but largely through his efforts other institutions in Kentucky were erected.[1]
William Stout Chipley published a paper on "sitomania," a type of insanity consisting of an intense dread or loathing of food. Clinical research in Great Britain and France during the 1860s and 1870s replaced sitomania with the term "anorexia nervosa" and distinguished the disorder from other mental illnesses in which appetite loss was a secondary symptom and from physical "wasting" diseases, such as tuberculosis, diabetes, and cancer.[citation needed]
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Further reading
- Sitiomania (intense dread of food), by William Stout Chipley