Disease of mental health where symptoms are deliberately produced, feigned or exaggerated in order to falsely demonstrate the presence of an illness
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Feigned insanity, how most usually simulated, and how best detected : an essay to which was awarded the gold medal in the class of medical jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh, July, 1844 / by Henry Wentworth Acland.
Henry AclandDate: 1844- Books
Patient or pretender : inside the strange world of factitious disorders / Marc D. Feldman, Charles V. Ford, with Toni Reinhold.
Feldman, Marc D., 1958-Date: [1994]- Books
The spectrum of factitious disorders / edited by Marc D. Feldman and Stuart J. Eisendrath.
Date: [1996]
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A statement of facts, relative to the supposed abstinence of Ann Moore, of Tutbury, Staffordshire: and a narrative of the circumstances which led to the recent detection of the imposture: to which is subjoined an appendix, containing medical and other papers, illustrative of the statement / compiled and published at the request of the committee, formed for the investigation of the case.
Legh RichmondDate: 1813
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Morbi simulati et dissimulati : dissertatio inauguralis medico-forensis ... / scripsit Antonius J. Hummel.
Hummel, Antonius J.Date: [1843]