Contextualizing ovarian pain in the late 19th century — Part 2: Ovarian-based treatments of “hysteria”
The peculiar therapeutic practice of “ovarian compression”—paradoxically, both in initiating and in terminating hysterical activity—remains largely unexplained territory from both historical and medical perspectives. The gynecological indications of “hysteria” and “hystero-epilepsy” are now consider...
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Routledge
2021
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