massage as preventative medicine, cures things
female patients with "hysteria", hysteria was defined as: Symptoms included ongoing anxiety, irritability, a bloated stomach, cramps (sounds like ordinary cramps to me and really BAD cramps WOULD make a person hysterical).
Blame for this condition, which is no longer recognized by medical professionals. The prescribed treatment was a "pelvic massage" to induce "hysterical paroxysm" -- basically, an orgasm, which would supposedly restore the woman to full health (actually orgasm in both sexes, brings about balance within the body - homeostasis, which is always the goal of all living things. balance and homeostasis are the same).
Physicians provided pelvic massages which was a routine part of most Victorian doctors work, as it had been for centuries before. But, as accounts in contemporary medical journals attest, it was tedious, boring and physically demanding work.
Dr. J. Mortimer Granville pioneered the labor-saving vibrator in the 1880s, when his electromechanical invention was patented. Originally used purely as a medical instrument.
I never knew any of this. massage is again being used as PREVENTATIVE medicine. not just for the laying on of hands as described in the bible with energy fields and all that. but also to up circulation. there is a lot of reasons. publish later.
so we have come full circle. interesting about the vibrator. had no idea they had been around since the 1880's and now here we are again.
Blame for this condition, which is no longer recognized by medical professionals. The prescribed treatment was a "pelvic massage" to induce "hysterical paroxysm" -- basically, an orgasm, which would supposedly restore the woman to full health (actually orgasm in both sexes, brings about balance within the body - homeostasis, which is always the goal of all living things. balance and homeostasis are the same).
Physicians provided pelvic massages which was a routine part of most Victorian doctors work, as it had been for centuries before. But, as accounts in contemporary medical journals attest, it was tedious, boring and physically demanding work.
Dr. J. Mortimer Granville pioneered the labor-saving vibrator in the 1880s, when his electromechanical invention was patented. Originally used purely as a medical instrument.
I never knew any of this. massage is again being used as PREVENTATIVE medicine. not just for the laying on of hands as described in the bible with energy fields and all that. but also to up circulation. there is a lot of reasons. publish later.
so we have come full circle. interesting about the vibrator. had no idea they had been around since the 1880's and now here we are again.
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I knew this, and it always makes me giggle. I mean, I\'m glad women\'s problems are taken more seriously, now, but for some reason the thought of having to go to a doctor for an orgasm just cracks me up. It shouldn\'t, but it does. Glad we live now! *HUGS*