I looked it up. It was actually meant to treat "female hysteria," a term used to give a reason to literally anything a woman did back in the day. Woman feeling stressed or anxious? HYSTERIA! Feeling depressed? HYSTERIA! Doesn't wanna get married? HYSTERIA!
"The 1899 edition of the Merck Manual, a medical reference book, listed pelvic and genital m......
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