German School Trembling Epidemics (1892, 1905-1906)

Around the turn of the 20th century, German schools experienced trembling epidemics, with students in Gross-Tinz in 1892 suffering from severe tremors that led to school closures. In 1905-1906, students in Meissen with a writing-intensive curriculum developed hand tremors, spreading to Chemnitz in 1906, where electric shock therapy was administered to suggest that they were trembling due to awareness of these cases, eventually succeeding in influencing the students' perceptions.