Comment on Old-timey doctors

tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That sounds far fetched until you remember that they diagnosed women with hysteria and treated them by giving them orgasms. When the vibrator was invented to treat muscle pain much later, doctors latched onto them for treating hysteria to give their hands a break.

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  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Absolutely. Hystéra is Latin for uterus. Hysteria, or the “roaming uteri” theory was a successor to Plato’s theory of hysterical suffocation. They believed that the uterus could migrate around the body, placing pressure on internal organs.

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When pregnant that’s a pretty good explanation of what it does though. Uterus just tells everybody up to the diaphragm to get outta the fucking way.

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    • KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Greek, not latin

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      • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Duh. Uterus is uterus in Latin. Thanks. I’ll edit for clarity.

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  • Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think that makes up for a lot of bad things that were done.

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  • KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Greek, not latin

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    • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think you responded to the wrong comment

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      • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Is your username a modem interpretation of OMGWTFBBQ?

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      • KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        oops. Yup

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  that still exists today in Turkey

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  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well in that case

    Merhaba, bugün doktorunuz olacağım. Lütfen eteğinizi kaldırın, iç çamaşırınızı çıkarın ve her zamanki pozisyonu alın.

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  • boatsnhos931@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gobble gobble

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  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can you tell us more? It sounds legitimately interesting.

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    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      well your regular small scale religious cult leader being the main point of contact for every health concern (because they set up shop in a very rural area with a lot of religious conservatism and limited health care). People go to them for all sorts of reasons and when you are a female the general answer is you are infested with demons I can help you personally in my bedroom. It is especially ironic when they go to this person because a female cant get pregnant and then voilà!

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