From Masturbation to Morphine — History’s Weirdest Cures for Hysteria
In case your uterus runs away…
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7 min readNov 10, 2020
Call a woman “crazy” today, and it is guaranteed to make her…well, crazy. That’s partly because the treatment for female hysteria has a painful and torturous past.
The first diagnosis of hysteria dates back to ancient Greece. (Hystera is the Greek word for “womb.”) In…
