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dc.creatorLarraín A,Camilo
dc.date2005-05-01
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dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872005000500016
dc.identifier.urihttps://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/132250
dc.descriptionPica, the compulsive eating of non edible substances, is known by the medical profession for centuries. In the novel by Miguel de Cervantes "Adventures of the famous knight Don Quixote de la Mancha'', there is a history in which "women that by caprice eat soil, plaster coal and other disgusting substances'' are mentioned. This description configures the clinical diagnosis of pica. This fact has not attracted the attention of the critics of Cervantes' novel, up to now. This unequivocal reference of pica suggests that iron deficiency anemia, caused by chronic hemorrhages in adults, was frequent in 1605, when the book was first published
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dc.publisherSociedad Médica de Santiago
dc.relation10.4067/S0034-98872005000500016
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceRevista médica de Chile v.133 n.5 2005
dc.subjectAnemia, iron-deficiency
dc.subjectEating disorders
dc.subjectPica
dc.titlePica en "Don Quijote"


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