Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Lazlo in PA
Sarcasm alert

c. 1860.Female hysteria was a once-common medical diagnosis, made exclusively in women, which is today no longer recognized by modern medical authorities as a medical disorder. Its diagnosis and treatment were routine for many hundreds of years in Western Europe. Hysteria was widely discussed in the medical literature of the 19th century. Women considered to be suffering from it exhibited a wide array of symptoms including faintness, nervousness, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in abdomen, muscle spasm, shortness of breath, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, and "a tendency to cause trouble".

Since ancient times women considered to be suffering from hysteria would sometimes undergo "pelvic massage" — manual stimulation of the genitals by the doctor until the patient experienced "hysterical paroxysm" (orgasm).[1]

81 posted on 07/18/2011 9:03:18 PM PDT by Calusa (The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Calusa
Female hysteria was a once-common medical diagnosis, made exclusively in women, which is today no longer recognized by modern medical authorities as a medical disorder."

And I'm sitting here wondering why it's not.

105 posted on 07/18/2011 9:15:01 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 81 | View Replies ]

To: Calusa

Apparently there is a Mormon fellow who still subscribes to that way of thinking. Or Myth is hoping the rest of the country will buy it.

I would rather have a female President who has “a tendency to cause trouble” than a straight up lying, shifty, POS, Progressive loser.


109 posted on 07/18/2011 9:17:24 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 81 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson