Unsolved Medical Mysteries: Explaining the Unexplainable

The People Made of Glass (1x2)

Air date: Jan 01, 2025

Step back to the 14th century, when King Charles VI of France believed his body was made of glass and could shatter. Is it possible for the human body to turn to glass? What else could have plagued the king? Consider the biological phenomenon of brittle-bone disease and the psychological condition of hypochondria.