• In the 5th century BCE Hippocrates first used the term hysteria. (wikipedia.org)
  • As Janice P. Nimura writes for the New York Times , Hippocrates believed that women's illnesses were all about the uterus, an organ that a later Greco-Roman writer described as "an animal within an animal" with its own wants. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The term "hysteria" was attributed either to ancient Egyptians or to Hippocrates and the Greeks ( hysterika is Greek for uterus), with a belief that female ailments could be the result of a wandering uterus applying pressure internally on organs and nerves leading to symptoms. (medscape.com)
  • All too often, the historical trail of hysteria is taken to begin in Egyptian medicine, and then follow a continuum: to Hippocrates, the witches of the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, the Salpêtrière, Charcot, and then Freud. (bvsalud.org)
  • Hippocrates was the first to diagnose hysteria in 450 BC. (besthealthmag.ca)
  • Hippocrates suggested the uterus was the source and many complaints that women had, giving them the catch all term hysteria. (homeopathbarbara.nz)
  • Instead, the ancient Romans credited hysteria to a disease of the womb or a disruption in reproduction (i.e., a miscarriage, menopause, etc. (wikipedia.org)
  • This idea stuck around through the 19th century, when many women's physical and mental health conditions were dismissed as " hysteria "-a word that comes from the Greek word for womb. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The concept of a pathological wandering womb was later viewed as the source of the term hysteria , which stems from the Greek cognate of uterus, ὑστέρα ( hystera ). (alchetron.com)
  • Derived from the Greek word hustera , meaning "womb," hysteria was thought to be caused by "a uterus moving through a woman's body, eventually strangling her and inducing disease. (nyu.edu)
  • Hysteria was first identified in ancient Greece, and although the description changed many times, it was called a woman's disease, because the uterus (womb) was thought to move around the body. (iscmentoring.eu)
  • Historical treatments for hysteria included surgical removal of the womb (hysterectomy) and/or ovaries. (iscmentoring.eu)
  • referring to diseases of the womb. (researchgate.net)
  • Furthermore, lifestyle choices, such as choosing not to wed, are no longer considered symptoms of psychological disorders such as hysteria. (wikipedia.org)
  • This drug especially cures symptoms related to gynecology such as hysteria, menstruation, disorders arising in the uterus and genitals etc. (naturaright.com)
  • The drug Tarantula Hispania is used in such neurological disease whose symptoms do not easily occur in the patient, but even with the use of this drug, even small symptoms of the disease arise and the disease ends from the root. (naturaright.com)
  • Use of drug Tarantula Hispania is beneficial in the symptoms of neurological disease, menstrual dysfunction and burning sensation in the upper part of the spine, etc. in a dancing person. (naturaright.com)
  • George Beard, a physician who catalogued seventy-five pages of possible symptoms of hysteria and yet called his list incomplete, claimed that almost any ailment could fit the diagnosis. (alchetron.com)
  • With so many possible symptoms, hysteria was often considered a catchall diagnosis where any unidentifiable ailment could be assigned. (alchetron.com)
  • Hysteria is currently recognized as a neurotic pathology characterized by physical symptoms that have no biological basis. (albumarte.org)
  • The belief that this was a kind of supernatural illness was gradually overcome by the beginning of the 18th century, and a century later the diagnosis of hysteria was based on symptoms that are very similar to those of epilepsy but, still, it was thought to be an exclusively female syndrome. (albumarte.org)
  • This "disease" had no distinct set of symptoms, and it was subsequently used to explain essentially any display of emotional volatility, deviancy, or "strange behavior" in women. (nyu.edu)
  • Charcot opined that hysteria had some psychogenic component and was influenced by environmental conditions, with psychological and medical symptoms of disease along a continuum. (medscape.com)
  • Hysteria is an old term referring to expressions of intense emotions with persistent psychosomatic symptoms. (iscmentoring.eu)
  • Symptoms called hysteria may include nausea, vomiting and difficulty breathing. (iscmentoring.eu)
  • This suggests an entirely physical cause for the symptoms but, by linking them to the uterus, suggests that the disorder can only be found in women. (sunshinestatenews.com)
  • N2 - Mass hysteria or collective hysteria usually begins when an individual shows a hysteric manifestation in front of others in the same group who later contagiously acquire the same symptoms. (lookformedical.com)
  • Dr. Prutchi-Sagiv serves as the VP R&D of Gynica a medical company researching and developing cannabinoid solutions to target gynaecological symptoms and diseases. (femtechnology.org)
  • In fact, ancient Egypt has the first recorded use of the term 'wandering uterus' - but it was not until ancient Greece and then Rome after it that the term 'hysteria' was coined, often used to dismiss a vast array of symptoms exhibited by women, attributed to their physiological abnormalities. (femtechnology.org)
  • It's relationship to the Psoric Miasm means it is also about functional disease- but instead of the slow nature of Psora, the Hydrophobic miasm is in high speed, with violent and uncontrollable symptoms, but only expressed in short bursts. (homeopathbarbara.nz)
  • Miasms have a hereditary nature and affect the way we interact with the world, as well as having themes with physical symptoms or diseases. (homeopathbarbara.nz)
  • Currently, most doctors practicing medicine do not accept hysteria as a medical diagnosis. (wikipedia.org)
  • The blanket diagnosis of hysteria has been fragmented into myriad medical categories such as epilepsy, histrionic personality disorder, conversion disorders, dissociative disorders, or other medical conditions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Female hysteria was once a common medical diagnosis, reserved exclusively for women, that is no longer recognized by medical authorities as a medical disorder. (alchetron.com)
  • However, he was also the first to use "hysteria" as a formal diagnosis, and in doing so, set a standard of unequal medical care on the basis of gender. (nyu.edu)
  • Hysteria, although no longer a legitimate diagnosis, is still used to describe "overly emotional" women and has led to their unfair characterization as inherently unpredictable or untrustworthy. (nyu.edu)
  • When the all-clear is given, the diagnosis is mass hysteria , also known as epidemic hysteria , mass psychogenic illness and mass sociogenic illness. (lookformedical.com)
  • It has been successfully used in flatulent colic, hysteria, some nervous complaints, epilepsy, and as an excellent vermifuge. (healthy.net)
  • For instance, before the introduction of electroencephalography, epilepsy was frequently confused with hysteria. (alchetron.com)
  • The word hysteria originates from the Greek word for uterus, hystera. (wikipedia.org)
  • The genus name " Ruta " comes from the Greek work " reuo ", to set free, showing its reputation as a freer from disease. (healthy.net)
  • Ancient Egyptians also shared the early Greek belief that hysteria in women, now known as Conversion Disorder, was caused by a "wandering uterus, " and so used fumigation of the vagina to lure the organ back into proper position (Alexander 21). (interstellarindex.com)
  • From Wikipedia: While the word "hysteria" originates from the Greek word for uterus, hystera, the word itself, is not an ancient one, and the term "hysterical suffocation" -- meaning a feeling of heat and inability to breathe -- was instead used in ancient Greek medicine. (sunshinestatenews.com)
  • A little later, Plato and his ancient Greek brethren believed hysteria had to do with the uterus somehow creeping and wandering all about the body like an escaped amoeba, threatening strangulation as it entered the windpipe, as described in Plato's famed dialogue Timaeus. (besthealthmag.ca)
  • Rachel Maines hypothesized that doctors from the classical era up until the early 20th century commonly treated hysteria by masturbating female patients to orgasm (termed "hysterical paroxysm"), and that the inconvenience of this may have driven the early development of and the market for the vibrator. (alchetron.com)
  • Many influential people such as Sigmund Freud and Jean-Martin Charcot dedicated research to hysteria patients. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many cases that had previously been labeled hysteria were reclassified by Sigmund Freud as anxiety neuroses. (alchetron.com)
  • Adolf von Strümpell (1853-1925) postulated psychic trauma as the cause for hysteria in 1884 and Paul Möbius (1853-1907) developed a psychotherapeutic concept for treating these disorders before Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) developed his psychoanalysis. (iscmentoring.eu)
  • Some medical authors claim that the decline was due to laypeople gaining a greater understanding of the psychology behind conversion disorders such as hysteria. (alchetron.com)
  • Research has also shown that it helps with mental disorders including hysteria and melancholia. (ceceliasgoodstuff.com)
  • Conditions which feature recurrent or persistent episodes of dyskinesia as a primary manifestation of disease may be referred to as dyskinesia syndromes (see MOVEMENT DISORDERS). (lookformedical.com)
  • Saffron is a storied "flower of health," used in the treatment of more than ninety diseases and disorders throughout history and even today. (eluneblue.com)
  • Prohibition of advertisement of certain drugs for treatment of certain diseases and disorders. (bnblegal.com)
  • In the nineteenth century, female hysteria was considered a diagnosable physical illness in women. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hysteria of both genders was widely discussed in the medical literature of the nineteenth century. (alchetron.com)
  • During the early twentieth century, the number of women diagnosed with female hysteria sharply declined. (alchetron.com)
  • Analysis of the narratives on the history of hysteria reveals that those who elaborated them did not always take into account the fundamentally historiographical aspect of that proposal, and some inferences were considered as historical facts. (bvsalud.org)
  • Today, female hysteria is no longer a recognized illness, but different manifestations of hysteria are recognized in other conditions such as schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, conversion disorder, and anxiety attacks. (alchetron.com)
  • To quote King's Dispensatory - " Its action is chiefly directed upon the uterus, and is capable of exciting menorrhagia, inflammation and miscarriage. (healthy.net)
  • Plato and Aristotle believed that hysteria, which Plato also called female madness, was directly related to these women's lack of sexual activity and described the uterus as those who suffered from it as having a sad, bad, or melancholic uterus. (wikipedia.org)
  • The oldest record of hysteria dates back to 1900 BCE when Egyptians recorded behavioral abnormalities in adult women on the Kahun Papyrus. (wikipedia.org)
  • At this time, writings such as Constantine the African's Viaticum and Pantegni, described women with hysteria as the cause of amor heroycus, a form of sexual desire so strong that it caused madness, rather than someone with a problem who should be cured. (wikipedia.org)
  • She recognized that women were often ashamed to go to a doctor with gynecological issues, and studied women's diseases and attempted to avoid common misconceptions and prejudice of the era. (wikipedia.org)
  • She prescribed remedies such as mint for women suffering from hysteria. (wikipedia.org)
  • She believed that men and women were both responsible for original sin, and could both suffer from hysteria. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1859, a physician named George Taylor claimed that a quarter of all women suffered from hysteria. (alchetron.com)
  • It is precisely this link between hysteria and being a woman that the work of the two artists focuses on, addressing the vicious idea that women are inherently incapable of managing their emotions which results in a clear discriminatory and derogative attitude towards femininity in general. (albumarte.org)
  • Similarly, in women who utilize analogous devices such as preventive sponges and pessaries, neurasthenia and hysteria are of frequent occurrence. (oddbooks.co.uk)
  • Unfortunately hysteria has been a term too often applied to women, often with gaslighting or a derogatory effect. (homeopathbarbara.nz)
  • 1. Peony is often combined with Mistletoe in the treatment of Wind, spasms, convulsions and nervous diseases. (medicinetraditions.com)
  • In what way was Flaubert's specification of Emma's affiliation as "brain fever" rather than perhaps "uterus fever," when most would diagnose her with "hysteria" at the time, progressive? (duke.edu)
  • Since the times of ancient Greece, medical examinations would erroneously consider it a distinctive disease of the female, caused by a dysfunction of the uterus. (albumarte.org)
  • Hysteria is a term used colloquially to mean ungovernable emotional excess and can refer to a temporary state of mind or emotion. (wikipedia.org)
  • Pierre Janet (1859-1947) first used the term dissociation to describe the behavior of people who had been diagnosed with hysteria. (iscmentoring.eu)
  • and used both externally and internally in many cutaneous diseases, the eruption occasioned by the poison rhus, and in the bites of venomous snakes. (youawesomehuman.com)
  • The project will consist of a solo exhibition, curated by Paola Ugolini, two performances on the opening day (Tuesday, June 5th, 2018 at 7.30 pm), another one during the exhibition days (July, 2018) and, lastly, a training workshop on June 4th at the Real Academia de España en Rome. (albumarte.org)
  • For the artist, this giant envelope becomes the conceptual and formal representation of hysteria. (albumarte.org)
  • Hysteria was referred to as "the widow's disease", because the female semen was believed to turn venomous if not released through regular climax or intercourse. (alchetron.com)
  • Although Maines's theory that hysteria was treated by masturbating female patients to orgasm is widely repeated in the literature on female anatomy and sexuality, some historians dispute Maines's claims about the prevalence of this treatment for hysteria and about its relevance to the invention of the vibrator, describing them as a distortion of the evidence or that it was only relevant to an extremely narrow group. (alchetron.com)
  • In this personal exhibition, the duo presents a series of unpublished works specifically realized for the spaces of AlbumArte, which reflect on the theme of hysteria as a stereotype of exclusively female pathology. (albumarte.org)
  • Fashion historian Valerie Steele writes, "Historians who would never accept medical accounts of the dangers of masturbation (causes blindness and insanity) or female education (sucks the blood from the uterus to the brain with appalling results) become perversely credulous whenever fashion is the subject of medical anathema. (frockflicks.com)
  • It was considered a disease related to sexual deprivation in the absence of marriage'which, today, we might call sexual frustration' that could be 'treated' by massaging of female private parts , either by a midwife or a physician. (besthealthmag.ca)
  • Even Freud, who thought this 'hysteria' was related to repressed and childish sexual fantasies, assumed female desire was pathological unless it was expressed through intercourse. (besthealthmag.ca)
  • In what ways was it still reductive, as hysteria was speculated for millennia to be caused by women's unfulfilled sexual desires, and Emma's brain fever occurs after being left by Rodolphe? (duke.edu)
  • Feminist dress-reformers blamed corsets for sapping women's strength and keeping them from achieving equality with men… [while] 19th-century medical reports that attributed diseases as varied as tuberculosis, breast cancer, scoliosis, and prolapsed uterus - not to mention hysteria, insanity, and 'impure desires' - to tight-lacing. (frockflicks.com)
  • A medical specialty concerned with the study of the structures, functions, and diseases of the nervous system. (lookformedical.com)
  • The book has its roots in Cleghorn's own experience suffering from the autoimmune disease lupus . (smithsonianmag.com)
  • diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. (avivaromm.com)
  • With the shift in perception of hysteria came a shift in treatment options. (wikipedia.org)
  • i) Any signboard or notice displayed by registered medical practitioner on his premises indicating that treatment for any disease, disorder or condition specified in section 3 of the Schedule is undertaken in those premises. (pharmacy180.com)
  • We also provide evidences from emotional contagion, gender difference and treatment in mass hysteria to support this hypothesis. (lookformedical.com)
  • Somewhere there is treatment for disease and mental impairment. (youawesomehuman.com)
  • This disruption can lead to a hormonal imbalance, with possible physical health implications, such as cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal issues, and chronic pain. (triwellnesstherapy.com)
  • Hahnemann firmly believed that suppression of acute disease drove it inwards and created chronic disease. (homeopathbarbara.nz)
  • Between the fifth and thirteenth centuries, however, the increasing influence of Christianity in the Latin West altered medical and public understanding of hysteria. (wikipedia.org)
  • But when Wanda is diagnosed with an aggressive form of the disease, Lisa Loomer's play shifts from black comedy to life-and-death drama, from purveying feminist cultural anthropology to attacking the corruption of the American medical establishment. (vancouverplays.com)
  • About half the visits to medical doctors and at least 10% of all medical treatments are for people who have no evidence of organic disease. (iscmentoring.eu)
  • Moreover, in the Middle Ages hysteria was thought to be linked to demonic forces and hysterics were exorcised. (albumarte.org)
  • Still, one's genetic programming is still thought to be--in my view--disproportionately ascribed as the cause of what ails folks, and yet we have failed to make significant progress in sorting out the "genetics" of things like heart disease, depression, diabetes, and many other conditions. (blogspot.com)
  • On Sasha's presentation: While Flaubert likely suffered from epileptic seizures, to what extent could researchers try to explore his assumed depression and anxiety as a result of his seizures as equal parts of his "nervous disease? (duke.edu)
  • Her physician husband (Allan Zinyk) insists she have her uterus removed to cure her "hysteria. (vancouverplays.com)
  • One American physician expressed pleasure in the fact that the country was "catching up" to Europe in the prevalence of hysteria. (alchetron.com)
  • The frequent local hyperemia resulting from the sexual excitement may very readily lead to inflammatory states of the ovaries and uterus and its covering layers, this, in turn, having a tendency to shorten life and even frequently causing death within a brief period of time. (oddbooks.co.uk)
  • We have moved on exponentially over the centuries in our attitudes toward gender and our understanding of what a human body is, but because those attitudes are so ingrained, they've shaped a lot of the understanding of diseases from a clinical perspective. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Hysteria theories from the ancient Egyptians, ancient Greeks, and ancient Romans were the basis of the Western understanding of hysteria. (wikipedia.org)
  • An example of this is the drug levodopa, used for Parkinson's disease. (blogspot.com)
  • What the brain needs in Parkinson's disease is dopamine , but dopamine can't be given by mouth because stomach acid destroys it. (blogspot.com)
  • The Japanese put saffron in medicine capsules and use these capsules as a sleeping aid and also to treat Parkinson's disease. (eluneblue.com)
  • Emery walked a line between two camps in the world of AIDS: that of the Orthodox, or mainstream advocates of the generally accepted theory that HIV is the sole and sufficient cause of AIDS that can be managed by a cocktail of pharmaceutical drugs, and the Dissidents, a diverse and sometimes frustratingly divisive group of people that includes factions who question almost everything about commonly held perceptions about the disease. (resistanceisfruitful.com)
  • Along the same spiritual lines, ancient Persians attributed illness to demons and believed that good health could be achieved through proper precautions to prevent and protect one from diseases. (interstellarindex.com)
  • The fibrous tissues are particularly affected, the ligament of joints, of the uterus, of the back. (materiamedica.info)
  • I lost it: the kind of gurgling hysteria that involves rhythmic rocking back and forth. (elephantjournal.com)
  • He postulates that the plaque forming degenerative diseases have the same tendency to fight back that are seen in the other secondary miasms. (homeopathbarbara.nz)
  • Even heart disease couldn't keep me down. (sunshinestatenews.com)
  • You see, I have never had any indication that I suffered from heart disease. (sunshinestatenews.com)
  • I don't have any co-morbidities that would scream heart disease. (sunshinestatenews.com)
  • Saffron can also lower the risk of heart disease and contracting hepatitis, as well as act as a powerful immune booster. (eluneblue.com)