Monday, July 27, 2009

daily trivia #138



The person above gave his name to a disease/sickness ,because of the outlandish stories he told people after returning from war.According to the stories the astounding feats included riding cannonballs, travelling to the Moon, and escaping from a swamp by pulling himself up by his own hair.

In the sickness named after him the affected person exaggerates or creates symptoms of illnesses in themselves or their child/children in order to gain investigation, treatment, attention, sympathy, and comfort from medical personnel. what sickness??

6 comments:

  1. munchausen syndrome.....after Baron Karl Friederich von Munchausen,a german knight

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  2. Picture of Baron Karl Münchhausen.
    disease- Munchausen syndrome or Munchausen by proxy.

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  3. munchaussan syndrome it is...

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