User talk:Mabandalone/Drafts/Female hysteria

Evidence against the 'hysteria was treated with masturbation to orgasm' thesis

 * "By hysteria, then, is intended a disease which commences with a convulsive paroxysm, of the kind commonly called 'hysterical.'" This is the book 'On the pathology and treatment of hysteria', by Robert Brudenell Carter (1853) He goes on to describe this paroxysm as like a fit. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=HxUDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA2
 * ch. 2 of the above work is entitled 'The Hysteric Paroxysm' and clearly refers to fits being brought on by stress. (e.g. p. 29)
 * Haven't read ch. 6, 'treatment' yet, but I see no indication it will be by massage