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Female hysteria is not an actual thing

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Female hysteria is not an actual thing

Sep 26, 2014
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It’s been a long time since anyone considered “female hysteria” an actual medical condition, with actual physical causes and actual pathological symptoms. There’s a gross history – equally hilarious and sinister – of pre-modern doctors inventing bizarre theories about women’s sex organs doing crazy things to angry up the blood, and if you still buy into…

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