Owen, Alan Robert George. Hysteria, Hypnosis and Healing: The Work of J.-M. Charcot. Garrett Publications, 1971, http://HSS.
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1867: The Matlock Bank water cure, very popular...
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1867
The Matlock Bank water cure, very popular with female clients, boasted warm-water douches, electrotherapy , and electric baths.
Maines, Rachel P. The Technology of Orgasm: ’Hysteria’, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
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1870: French physician Jean-Martin Charcot began...
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1870
French physician Jean-Martin Charcot
began developing a systematic theory of hysteria.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel. “Gentlemen’s Spleen”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 16, 27 Aug. 2009, pp. 25-7.
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Circa 1870: At La Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, patients...
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Circa 1870
At La Salpêtrière
hospital in Paris, patients classified as non-psychotic epileptics and hysterics were moved into the Quarter for Pure Epileptics, with Jean-Martin Charcot
as the senior physician.
Owen, Alan Robert George. Hysteria, Hypnosis and Healing: The Work of J.-M. Charcot. Garrett Publications, 1971, http://HSS.
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1878-1893: Jean-Martin Charcot gave increasingly popular...
Micale, Mark S. Approaching Hysteria: Disease and its Interpretations. Princeton University Press, 1995, http://HSS.
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Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel. “Gentlemen’s Spleen”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 16, 27 Aug. 2009, pp. 25-7.
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1878: Electromechanical vibrators were probably...
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1878
Electromechanical vibrators were probably first used medically in the treatment of hysteria at La Salpêtrière
in Paris.
Maines, Rachel P. The Technology of Orgasm: ’Hysteria’, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
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1881: The Chair of Diseases of the Nervous System...
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1881
The Chair of Diseases of the Nervous System was established at La Salpêtrière
by France's Chamber of Deputies
, making neurology a separate discipline; Jean-Martin Charcot
was appointed as first Chair in 1882.
Owen, Alan Robert George. Hysteria, Hypnosis and Healing: The Work of J.-M. Charcot. Garrett Publications, 1971, http://HSS.
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October 1885-February 1886: Sigmund Freud worked with Jean-Martin Charcot...