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Dear Ted, According to a couple of Websites, the Baron was a real-life German aristocrat, soldier and adventurer in the eighteenth century, whose after-dinner tales of his extraordinary exploits were immortalised in a book by Rudolph Erich Raspe. It must have been the fantastic self-aggrandizing tales that produced the association. Or was your question who actually attached the label to the syndrome? Regards, Sue --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Susan Kaiser, MD, PhD, FACS Department Phone: 212-241-6591 Department of Surgery, Box 1259 Practice Phone: 212-241-3699 The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Fax: 212-534-2654 One Gustave L. Levy Place Email: [log in to unmask] New York, NY 10029-6574 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Ted Harding wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Can someone out there who _knows_ the answer (guessing might > be easy) say how it is that the name "Munchausen" came to be > attached to what is known as "Munchausen's Syndrome" (never > mind "by proxy"). > > With thanks, > Ted. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Topical Thought: It is better to arrive, than to travel hopefully. > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[log in to unmask]> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 284 7749 > Date: 07-Feb-01 Time: 20:57:55 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ >