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Institution: STANFORD Univ Med Center  | My Account | E-mail Alerts | Access Rights | Sign In Vol. 2 No. 2, February 1993   Archives  •  Online Features Commentary  This Article  • Excerpt  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal The Münchhausen of Munchausen Syndrome A Historical Perspective Richard I. Haddy, MD Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(2):141-142. References Article references have been provided for searching and linking. Additional reference information may be available in the article PDF. 1. American Psychiatric Association, Committee on Nomenclature and Statistics. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Revised Third Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 1987:318. 2. Spiro HR. Chronic factitious illness: Munchausen's syndrome. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1968;18:569-579. FREE FULL TEXT 3. Chertok L. Mania operativa: surgical addiction. Psychiatr Med. 1972;3:105-118. 4. Stone MH. Factitious illness: psychological findings and treatment recommendations. Bull Menninger Clin. 1977;41:239-254. PUBMED 5. Blodi FC. Spelling of Münchhausen. JAMA. 1983:249:2019. FREE FULL TEXT 6. Kyle RA, Shampo MA. 'Munchausen syndrome.' JAMA. 1976;235:1229. PUBMED 7. Meadow R, Lennert T. Munchausen syndrome by proxy or Polle syndrome: which term is correct? Pediatrics. 1984;74:554-556. FREE FULL TEXT 8. Raspe RE. Baron Munchausen's narrative of his marvelous travels and campaigns in Russia (Ist ed, 1785). In: Singular Travels, Campaigns, and Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications Inc; 1960. 9. Lazarus A. Munchausen's syndrome: a disorder by any other name? Pharos. Summer 1989:34-36. 10. Asher R. Munchausen's syndrome. Lancet 1951;1:339-341. PUBMED 11. Burman D, Stevens D. A Munchausen family. Lancet. 1977;2:456. PUBMED 12. Ackerman ND Jr, Strobel CT. Polle syndrome: chronic diarrhea in Munchausen's child. Gastroenterology. 1981;81:1140-1142. PUBMED