Richard Asher
Physician, Deceased Person
1912 – 1969
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Who was Richard Asher?
Richard Alan John Asher, FRCP was an eminent 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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- Born
- Apr 3, 1912
Brighton - Also known as
- Dr. Richard Asher
- Richard Alan John Asher
- Richard Alan John Asher, FRCP
- Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 25, 1969
Marylebone
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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