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Early Modern Green Sickness and Pre-Freudian Hysteria (2009)

Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Volume: 14
Pages: 661--676
Publication date: 2009
Language: English

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Medical statistics Women and health Clinical psychology Medicine Hysteria Psychiatry Mental disorders and diseases 17th century England

In early modern medicine, both green sickness (or chlorosis) and hysteria were understood to be gendered diseases, diseases of women. Green sickness, a disease of young women, was considered so serious that John Graunt, the father of English statistics, thought that in his time dozens of women died of it in London every year. One of the symptoms of hysteria was that women fell unconscious. The force of etymology and medical tradition was so strong that in one instance the gender of the patient seems to have been changed by the recorder to make the case fit medical theory.

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