Female hysteria was a once-common medical diagnosis, made exclusively in women, which is no longer recognized by modern medical authorities. It was a popular diagnosis in Western nations, during the Victorian era, for women who exhibited a wide array of symptoms including faintness, nervousness, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in abdomen, muscle spasm, shortness of breath, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, and a "tendency to cause trouble!
Apparently the cure was an orgasm! !nuts!
woo hoo
Reading further because the physicians said that sometimes it took a long time to achieve the pelvic massage (i.e the orgasm) the electronic vibrator was invented!
You learn anew thing every day!
Thank god for Female Hysteria!