Does anyone suffer from hysteria?

[Jim D]

From the BBC website....

Dr Foxcroft, author of 'Hot Flushes, Cold Science', has shelves of old medical textbooks stuffed with long-forgotten ailments.

Among them is hysteria, the symptoms of which could range from excessive masturbation to excessive novel reading and a tendency to wander.

Common treatments for hysterical women, and they were invariably women, included opium, the removal of the clitoris and incarceration.

.....so you could be locked up for reading books? I'm not sure I want to know what 'treatment' hysterical men got.

 

[skipper734]

Among them is hysteria, the symptoms of which could range from excessive masturbation to excessive novel reading and a tendency to wander.

Oh er misses. I better make an appointment to see the Quack sharpish.

 

[Uncle C]

My hysteria is just coming into bud. Should be a lovely display this year.

 

[Austrian Gull]

Listening to Def Leppard's Hysteria certainly makes me suffer...

 

[fatbadger]

Well, obviously, there are quite a few in these parts with pre-seasonal hysteria. And of course with its natural concomitant, late-seasonal hysteria.