Victorian Medical Treatment Hysteria

The controversy of 'female hysteria' - Medical News Today

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Some of the hysteria symptoms that he named included: “a swollen abdomen, suffocating angina [chest pain] or dyspnea [shortness of breath], dysphagia …

Female hysteria - Wikipedia

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Female Hysteria during Victorian Era: Its …

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Hysteria is widely discussed in the medical literature of the Victorian era. In 1859, a physician claimed that a quarter of all women suffered from hysteria. He cataloged possible …

Female Hysteria: When Victorian Doctors Used to Finger …

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Hysteria was widely discussed in the medical literature of the Victorian era. Women considered to be suffering from it exhibited a wide array of symptoms …

Medical Vibrators for Treatment of Female Hysteria

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Medical Vibrators for Treatment of Female Hysteria. During the late 1800s through the early 1900s, physicians administered pelvic massages involving clitoral stimulation by early …

'Hysteria' patients in 1870s Paris revealed in pictures - Mail Online

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For centuries, female hysteria was a common medical diagnosis, with women forced to undergo treatment simply for having shown signs of shortness of …

Female Hysteria: When Victorian Doctors Used to Finger …

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Female Hysteria: When Victorian Doctors Used to Finger Their Patients. September 14, 2019 1800s, 1900s, ads, event & history, female, medical, WTF. In the …

Treatments for Hysteria – The Victorian Secret

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Treatments for Hysteria The Victorian era saw a wide variety of cures and treatments for hysteria, some of which were extremely bizarre. As mentioned in earlier …

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Patents were issued for specialized rocking chairs, wired apparatus that ran low electrical currents through patients, foot-pedal operated equipment with …