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The standard cure for this "hysterical suffocation" was scent therapy, in which good smells were placed under a woman's genitals and bad odors at the nose, while sneezing could be also induced to drive the uterus back to its correct place. [6]
19 paź 2012 · Galen’s treatments for hysteria consisted in purges, administrations of hellebore, mint, laudanum, belladonna extract, valerian and other herbs, and also getting married or repressing stimuli that could excite a young woman [2, 3, 7]. Hysterical cures are only revolutionized by Soranus (a Greek physician from the 1 st half of 2 nd century AD ...
13 paź 2020 · The 2011 rom-com Hysteria popularized the view that vibrators are tools meant to cure hysteria in female patients.
14 wrz 2019 · Victorian advertisement showing a doctor treating woman’s hysteria by “pelvic massage”. A solution was the invention of massage devices, which shortened treatment from hours to minutes, removing the need for midwives and increasing a physician’s treatment capacity.
6 wrz 2018 · There is scant evidence that orgasms were widely understood as a cure for female hysteria, and there’s even less evidence that Victorians used vibrators to induce orgasm as a medical technique ...
29 lut 2020 · Some physicians based their theories of female hysteria on the wandering womb theory, and prescribed medical treatments including marriage, heterosexual sex, pregnancy, applying pleasant-smelling oils to female genitals, and external vaginal stimulation with the idea that the treatments would anchor the uterus back into its proper location in ...
1 paź 2021 · In short, more than two-third of the women would show daily manifestations of hysteria. Maines claims that the narrative is male-dominated: female sexual expressions are shunted away as deviant and men try to control what is incomprehensible to them by medicalising it.
