Medical Massage Hysteria

Medical Vibrators for Treatment of Female Hysteria

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Medical Vibrators for Treatment of Female Hysteria. During the late 1800s through the early 1900s, physicians administered pelvic massages involving clitoral stimulation by early electronic vibrators as treatments for what was called female hysteria. Until the early …

Female hysteria - Wikipedia

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The controversy of 'female hysteria' - Medical News Today

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Some of the hysteria symptoms that he named included: “a swollen abdomen, suffocating angina [chest pain] or dyspnea [shortness of breath], dysphagia …

Victorian-Era Orgasms and the Crisis of Peer Review - The Atlantic

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This mass treatment—a cure for the now-defunct medical condition of “hysteria”—was made possible by a new technology: the vibrator. Vibrators allowed …

Female Hysteria: When Victorian Doctors Used to Finger …

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Rachael P. Maines, author of The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction, has observed that such cases were quite …

The History of Hysteria and How it Impacts You

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Over the years, treatment for this condition ranged from pelvic massage, forcing the woman to orgasm to release excess fluid, leeches on the abdomen to reduce …

"Hysteria" and the Strange History of Vibrators

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Doctors or midwives applied vegetable oil to women’s genitals and then massaged them with one or two fingers inside and the heel of the hand pressing …

Female Hysteria during Victorian Era: Its …

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Hysteria is widely discussed in the medical literature of the Victorian era. In 1859, a physician claimed that a quarter of all women suffered from hysteria. He cataloged …

The Technology of Orgasm - The New York Times

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The vibrator and its predecessors in the history of medical massage technologies are the means by which I shall examine three themes: androcentric definitions of sexuality and …