Munchausen by proxy “is a form of abuse in ... 2.0 cases in every 100,000 children under the age of 16, according to a 2013 Pediatrics report, but things might be much more serious than that.

Chapman describing a galloping case of the “Munchausen syndrome”* (TIME, March 5, 1951) and warning hospitals against this itinerant who, strangely, always used the same name. Hospital ...