About Richard Asher

Richard Alan John Asher was a British endocrinologist and haematologist. As the senior physician responsible for the mental observation ward at the Central Middlesex Hospital he described and named Munchausen syndrome in a 1951 article in The Lancet.

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Richard Asher

British endocrinologist and haematologist (1912-1969)

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Occupation: physician, internist, writer, endocrinologist

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April 3, 1912

Died

April 25, 1969

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