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Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2000, pp. 215-218
© 2000 Society of Pediatric Psychology

Commentary: Empirically Supported Treatments in Pediatric Psychology: Nocturnal Enuresis

Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, MD, MSc, PhD

University of Oulu, Finland, and the Imperial College School of Medicine, UK

All correspondence should be sent to Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK. E-mail: m.jarvelin@ic.ac.uk .


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The extensive and colorful history of enuresis shows that it has long posed an etiologic and therapeutic problem for physicians. The word "enuresis" is derived from the Greek "enourein," meaning to void urine. The first record of enuresis in the literature is in the Papyrus Ebers dated 1550 B.C., where the recommended remedy for incontinence was one juniper berry, one leaf of cyprus, and beer. Enuresis is mentioned in the first printed book on diseases in children published by Paul Bagellardus in 1472. He states that all treatments for urinary incontinence and bedwetting must be preceded by purging of the body, a probable remedy for relaxation of the vesicle muscles, because it was thought, in spite of magic cures, that enuresis resulted from weakness of the neck of the bladder (Glicklich, 1951Go).

With the perfection of human anatomy studies, especially in the form of nerve pathology, by the eighteenth . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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