CLASSIC: When People Thought They Were Made of Glass
Ridiculous History
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What Happened to the Glass Delusion?
The delusion was once relatively well known such that authors like Cervantes were writing about it. A psychiatrist named Andy Lemaine at Leiden in the Netherlands uncovered more cases and he felt that he was finding an authentic case of genuine glass delusion. He found a lecture in 1883 from an Edinburgh mental hospital that cited the symptoms of 300 female patients who believed their bodies were made of glass.
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