Posted by Declan on January 2, 2006, at 20:46:58 [reposted on January 3, 2006, at 0:19:15 | original URL]
In reply to Re: What is Hysteria?, posted by med_empowered on January 2, 2006, at 18:21:50
It does go back a bit.
From 'A Brief Discourse of a Disease called a Suffocation of the Mother'(1605):
This disease is called by diverse names amongst our authors, Passio Hysterica, Suffocatio, Priefocatio, and Strangulatus Uteri, Caducus Matricus ie in English the Mother or The Suffocation of the Mother, because most commonly, it takes them with choking in the throat; and it is an affect of the mother or wombe, wherein the principal parts of the bodie by consent do suffer diversely according to the diversitie of the causes and diseases wherewith the matrix is offended.Declan
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