Breed or Meadow?—Munchausen or Münchhausen?
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To pick another nit, the name Munchausen is an anglicization apparently coined by R. E. Raspe and his English publisher in 1786 and since perpetuated. Freiherr von Münchhausen, after whose tall tales the syndrome was named, not only spelled his name with two hs, as noted by Meadow and Lennert (Pediatrics 1984;74:554-556), but also with an umlaut over the first u. Interestingly, Meadow and Lennert's article carried a picture of a book printed in Germany with the name correctly spelled on the cover but they, this editor and the copy editor all missed the discrepancy!
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1978 ◽
Vol 23
(7)
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pp. 440-440
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1979 ◽
Vol 15
(4)
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pp. 307-313
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2008 ◽
Vol 103
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pp. xvi-xvi
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