[DouglasKC]

The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates believed a womb was essentially an “animal within an animal,” that it wandered throughout a woman’s body and caused illnesses. Doctors prescribed many different remedies in an attempt to “lure” the uterus back to its seat. The theory that women could not keep their uteruses in place — and thus keep them “tamed” — was used by the philosopher Aristotle to justify why women were unfit to partake in politics. The word for “uterus” is derived from the Greek root hystera, hence a surgery to remove the uterus is called a “hysterectomy.” The root hystera also appears in the words “hysteria” and “hysterical,” which, characterized by anxiety, irritability, and ungovernable emotional excess, were historically thought to manifest themselves only in women.

I did not know any of that. Thanks for the fascinating lesson.

[Kalija]

Thx, per Wikipedia hysteria Has been abandoned as a medical term, I guess it is politically incorrect.

Hysteria colloquially means ungovernable emotional excess.[1] Generally, modern medical professionals have abandoned using the term “hysteria” to denote a diagnostic category, replacing it with more precisely defined categories, such as somatization disorder.[2] In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association split phenomenology previously captured by the “hysteria” construct into discrete chapters on conversion, somatization, and dissociative disorders.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria