Blogcritics: Comments on Sickened

Comment by Rick Heller

Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:55:10 EST

According to this 1997 link, he was a real person: "On February 22, two centuries ago the "baron of lies" Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Baron von M?usen passed away. Born in 1720 in Bodenwerder, M?usen served initially as a page to Prince Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig, and later as a cornet, lieutnant and cavalry captain with a Russian regiment in two Turkish wars. M?usen was known during his lifetime as an excellent raconteur of anecdotes about war, hunting and travel adventures."

Comment by Dave Nalle

Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:41:26 EST

Baron Munchausen was actually a fictional character, rather than a real person, but that doesn't make the bizarre syndrome named after him any better. Dave

Comment by DrPat

Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:21:24 EST

There's an amazing scene in Sixth Sense involving the ghost of a child who died of this kind of abuse. For many people of a certain age, that was their first experience with "Munchausen's by Proxy."