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== History == {{lang|la|Pubertas praecox}} is the [[Latin]] term used by physicians from the 1790s onward. Various hypotheses and inferences on pubertal (menstrual, procreative) timing are attested since ancient times, which, well into early modernity were explained on the basis of [[Temperament#Four temperaments model|temperamental]], [[four humors|humoral]] and [[Jungian]] "complexional" causes, or general or local "plethora" (blood excess).<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Janssen|first1=Diederik|date=2021|title=Puer barbatus: Precocious Puberty in Early Modern Medicine|journal=Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences|volume=76|issue=1|pages=20β52|doi=10.1093/jhmas/jraa045|pmc=7737932|pmid=33186444|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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