INDEX
A
Abraham, Karl, 324
Abraham, Nicolas, 95
Abricosoff, Glafira, L'hystérie aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles (1897), 313
Abse, D. W., 8
ACT-UP, AIDS activist group, 334
Adair, Dr. James Makittrick, 124 , 166 -167
Adams, Francis, 7 -8
Addams, Jane (1860-1935), American social worker and author, 299
Addison, Joseph, 160
Addyman, M. E., 127 , 129
Adorno, Theodor, 237
Adultery, 317 , 319
Aesthetics of the face of the hysteric, concept of asymmetry in, 384
Aetius of Amida, 37 -39, 44 , 46 -47
Affectation (and hysteria), 163
African-Americans, distrust of psychotherapy in the 1960s and 1970s, 334
"Ague," the, during early modern England, 225
AIDS, x , xvi , 106 , 110 , 144 , 175 , 334 -335
Alcoholism, 229
Alexander, William, image of epileptic faces from The Treatment of Epilepsy , 381 ;
use of photography for the study of hysteria, 379
Alexander of Tralles, his twelve-volume Therapeutica , 46
Alexandria, medical school at, 35 , 45 , 49
'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi, known in Europe as Holy Abbas, 51 -53;
Kamil , 55 -56;
Liber Pantegni , 55 ;
Liber Regius , 55
Ali ibn Rabban at-Tabari (810-861), Firdaws al hikma (Paradise of Wisdom), 50
Allbutt, Sir Clifford, Professor of Medicine at Cambridge University, his essay published in the Contemporary Review (1895), 417
Alps, the, 296
Alzheimer, A., paper on cerebral plagues, 386
American Revolution, the, 92
Amnesia, 322
Animal magnetism, 184
Animal spirits, the, 142 , 145 -148, 150 -151, 158 , 173 , 236
Andree, Richard, citation by Fishberg about the Jews' susceptibility to hysteria, 412 -415
Anesthesia, 10
Anna O., German feminist leader, 290 , 315 -316, 318 , 332 , 334 , 419 -420;
In the Rummage Store (1890), 316 ;
translation of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindica-
tion of the Rights of Women into German, 316 ;
play Woman's Rights , 316
Apnoia, absence of breath, 58
Appetite, 10 , 19 , 52
Aragon, Louis (1897-), French poet and novelist, view about Augustine, 312
Aretaeus of Cappadocia, 35 , 37 -39, 41 , 43 , 55 , 61 , 104 ;
"On hysterike pnix ," 15 ;
"Of the Causes and Symptoms of Acute Diseases," 38
Aristophanes' play Frogs , 32
Aristotle, 17 , 27 , 30 -31, 33 , 50
Armstrong-Jones, Dr. Robert, 324
Art, early medieval religious, 367
Art Nouveau, 292
Artemidorus, theorist of dreams, Dream Book , 31
Articella , medical textbook used at Salerno, 57 -58;
versio antigua , 58 ;
traductio nova , 58
Aryans, 435
Astronomy, Gallilean, 108
Astruc, Jean, 168
Asylum, the, 249 , 256 , 356 ;
reforms of at the turn of the nineteenth century, 261
Athenian city states, the, 105
Augustan self-fashioning, 158 -165
Augustine, patient at the Salpêtrière hospital for five years, 311 -313;
Augustine: Big Hysteria , play about Augustine staged in 1991 in London, 313
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, ix
Austen, Jane, 134 ;
Sense and Sensibility , 164 ;
fictional character Mr. Wood-house, 294 ;
Marianne Dashwood, 164
Avicenna, 59
B
Babinski, Josef, 230 , 265 , 360 -366, 423
Bacon, Roger (c. 1214-1294), 139
Bacteriology, 249
Baglivi, Georgio, Italian physician, 146 , 151 , 156 , 175 , 245 ;
discussion of The Practice of Physick, reduc'd to the ancient Way of Observations, containing a just Parallel between the Wisdom of the Ancients and the Hypothesis's of Modern Physicians , 148
de Baillou, Guillaume (1538-1616), 63
Bakhtin, Mikhail, Rabelais and His World , 123
Ball in the body, 13 , 22
Bankers, Boston, 294
Barker, Prince P., use of Charcot's nosological categories, 393 , 397 ;
images showing the illusion of movement representing the hysteric from "The Diagnosis and Treatment of Hysterical Paralysis," 399 -401
Bart, P. B., 4
Bartlett, Neil, study of Oscar Wilde, 292
Batault, Emile, 289 , 308
Bath, England, 168
Battaille, Louis, photograph "Deux Cas d'Anorexie Hystérique," 350
Battie, William, 175 , 178 -179;
Treatise on Madness , 179
Bauer, Ida, the patient Freud called Dora, 316 , 332 , 419 -423, 425 -429, 431 -436;
the globus hystericus she manifested, 420 -421
Bauer, Otto, brother of Ida Bauer, the patient Freud called Dora, and one of the founders of the Austrian Socialist Party, 419 -420
Bauer, Philip, father of Ida Bauer, the patient Freud called Dora, 419
Beard, George M., 245 -246, 295 -296,
article in American Nervousness , 294
Becker, Gustavus, 168
Bedlam, oldest English insane asylum, 176 ;
Bethlehem, 178
Bed-wetting, interpreted by Freud as a sexual metaphor, 423
Beers, Clifford, 246
Behaviorism, 234
Bell, Sir Charles, Essays on the Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression (1824), 362 , 364 ;
image of opisthotonus, 368
Di Benedetto, V., 16
Benedikt, Moriz, the liberal-Jewish neurologist who was one of Freud's teachers, 406
Benjamin, Walter, 95 ;
essay on the reproducibility of images in the age of technology, 383
Benzi, Ugo (1376-1439), commentaries on the Canon of Avicenna, 59 ;
com-
mentaries on the Tengi of Galen, 59 ;
commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms , omitting books 3 and 7, 59
Béraud, Armand-Louis-Joseph, dissertation dealing with circumcision and the Jews, 428
Bergasse, Nicolas, 360
Berggasse 19, Freud's address, 228
Berkeley, Bishop George, 240
Berlin, Germany, 314
Bernheim, Hippolyte, 258 , 416
Bettmann, Dr., description of hysterical gangrene, 389
Bewell, Alan, 177
Bienville, M. D. T., treatise on nymphomania, 172 -173
Birnbaum, Nathan, originator of the word Zionist , review of Houston Stewart Chamberlain's argument against the pure nature of the Jewish race, 434
Bisexuality, 288
Black Death, the, 435
Blackmore, Sir Richard, Enlightenment "nerve doctor," 155 , 168 , 244
Blake, William, 98 , 177 , 185
Blindness, 322 ;
and hysteria, 20
Bloch, Iwan, nineteenth-century sexologist, 427
Blood, 13 , 18 -19, 24 , 27 , 30 -31, 33 , 53
Blushing, 163
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375), Italian poet and novelist, 98 , 134
Bodin, Jean, philosopher and economic thinker attached to the court of Henry III, 115
Body, the (see also Individual parts: Foot, Hand, Skin, etc.), 99 , 102 , 111 , 113 , 120 , 122 , 147 , 151 , 160 , 164 , 183 , 235 , 238 , 244 , 256 , 260 , 288 , 293 , 335 , 364 , 370 ;
Hysterical body, Philosophical concept of, 95 ;
as Metaphysical category, 95
Body language, 161
Boerhaave, Hermann, Dutch physician and chemist, 151 , 163 , 168 , 262
Bohemia, hysteria in, 168
Boss, J. M. N., 11
Bourneville, D.-M., advocate of Jean Martin Charcot's teachings, 231
Bovary, Emma, 134
Bradshaw, Sir William, society physician in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway , 247
Brain, as the anatomic zone and source of hysteria, 140 , 145 , 151 , 155 , 158 , 252 , 254 -256, 298 , 383 , 385 , 402 ;
brain stem, 232 ;
mythology of, 385
Bramwell, Byrom, twentieth-century specialist on nervous diseases, 392 ;
"doctored" photograph of the hysteric from "Clinical Lecture on a Case of Hysterical Contracture," 396
Brasavola, Antonio (1500-1555), annotated edition of the Aphorisms and its Galenic commentary, 59
Breton, André, French poet, novelist, and critic, his view about Augustine, 312
Breuer, Josef (1842-1925), Austrian physician, 180 , 227 , 288 , 292 , 305 , 315 -318, 366 ;
Studies on Hysteria , 291 ;
case study of Anna O., 419
Briefe Discourse , 121
Bright, Timothy, English physician trained at Trinity College, Cambridge, 116
Briquet, Pierre, 13 , 185 , 258 ;
"Briquet's syndrome," 230
British, the, 161
British Isles, the, 149
British Library, the, 60
Brothels, managed by Jews, 432
Brouillet, André, painting of Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtriére, 345 , 353 , 356 , 362 , 416 ;
influence on the history of hysteria, 346
Brown, Baker, nineteenth-century doctor known for performing the practice of hysterectomy, ovariectomy, and clitoridectomy, 255
Brown, John (1735-1788), developed the concept of the irritability of the muscles from the work of Albrecht yon Hailer, 364
Brown-Séquard, C. E., nineteenth-century neurologist, 417 , 419
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861), 357
Brücke, Wilhelm, 238
Buchan, William, popular medical writer on domestic medicine, 241
Budel, H., eighteen-year longitudinal study among Jews in Estonia during the prewar period, 433
Burg, Victor Jean-Marie, 258 -259
Burghart, C. G., 168
Burrows, George Man, 252 -253
Burton, Robert, 112 , 128 -129;
The Anatomy of Melancholy , 114 , 126 , 129 , 409
Bushmen, 294
Byzantine Empire, the, 44 -46, 64
C
Caelius Aurelianus, 39 , 48
Cambridge, England, 157
Cambridge University, 127
Camizards, French prophets, 170
Cancer, 110 , 144 , 352
Canguilhem, Georges, view relating germ theory to hysteria, 353
Capitalism, American, 295
Carlyle, Thomas, 246
Carpenter, W. B., 262
Carter, Robert, mid-Victorian physician, 232 -233, 242 , 262 -265, 289 , 301 -227, 302 , 329 ;
On the Pathology and Treatment of Hysteria (1853), 262 , 300
Casanova de Seingalt, Giovanni Giacomo (1725-1798), Venetian adventurer and author, an international gambler and spy, 163 , 243
Casazza, Roberto, his survey of hysterical skin diseases, 389
Catarrh, in relation to hysteria, 168
Categorical imperatives, and hysteria, 179 -180
Catherine of Sienna, Saint, 367
Catholic religious experience, 367
Catholics, the, as a religious category, 374
Cause, scientific, 99
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius, 36 , 39 , 47
Central Union of the Decorative Arts, the, 310
Cerebral fibers, 254
Cerebral palsy, 256
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616), Spanish novelist, 139
Chadwick, J., 8
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, argument against the pure nature of the Jewish race, 434
Champier, Claude (fl. 1556), 60
Charcot, Jean-Martin, ix , xii , 8 , 10 , 93 , 102 , 104 , 176 , 185 , 227 , 235 -236, 238 , 256 -260, 264 , 289 , 295 , 304 -307, 309 -315, 320 , 322 -323, 351 -352, 359 , 362 , 364 -370, 372 , 374 , 377 , 379 , 383 -384, 388 -389, 391 , 402 , 404 , 406 , 411 , 416 -417, 419 , 423 , 427 , 436 ;
clinic at the Salpêtriére, 307 ;
"Dr. Charcot's Hysteria Shows," production about Char-cot's patient Augustine performed at Trinity College, Connecticut, 313 ;
images of hysterics, 368 -371;
Les Demoniques dans l'art (1887), 231 , 370 , 372 ;
letter to Freud on 23 November 1891, 415 ;
nosological categories, 415 ;
paper with Paul Richer published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease , 381
Charcot, Madame, 310
Charles II, 136
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340-1400), 98
Cheyne, George, Scottish iatromechanist, 124 , 145 , 151 -152, 154 -156, 162 , 165 -167, 170 , 183 -184, 262 ;
The English Malady , 148 , 151 -152, 157 -158, 166 ;
nervous theory, 232
Childbirth, 17 , 24 , 287 , 326
China, under the leadership of Mao Tse-tung, 228
Chlorosis, 9
Chodoff, Paul, orginator of the term "the hysterical personality disorder" or DSM-111, 287
Chodorow, Nancy, 330
Cholera, 226
Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, 35 , 361 , 429 ;
stigmata of in Saint Petersburg, 388
Christianity, 98 , 105 , 107 , 372 , 429 ;
and Medieval Christendom, 232
Church, Archibald, Chicago neurologist, 299
Circumcision, 428 , 430 , 432 -436
Civil War, the, 297
Civilization, 102 , 158 ;
English, 123 ;
European, 123 ;
Western, 94 , 335
Cixous, Hélène, viii , 286 , 419 ;
In Dora's Case , 332 ;
"The Laugh of the Medusa," 332 ;
The Newly-Born Woman (1975), 332 ;
Portrait de Dora (1976), 332
Clark, L. Pierce, argument that there are tetanoid seizures in epilepsy, 377
Clark, Michael, 240
Clarke, Edward, 297
Clasius, George, 168
Class mobility, 161
Classical Association Triennial Meeting, the, 65
Cleaves, Dr. Margaret, 300
Clement, Catherine, debate with Hélène Cixous in The Newly-Born Woman , 332
Cleopatra, 120
Clinical Chair of the Nervous System, 257
Clitoris, the, 251
Clouston, Thomas, nineteenth-century British physician, 247
Codes of nervousness, 161
Codes of politeness, 160 -162
Codlingsby, Lord, character in William Thackeray's Codlingsby , conversation with Rafael Mendoza, 409
Cognition, 143
Cole, Dr. William (see also Dr. Thomas, Sydenham), 139
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1722-1834), English poet, critic, and philosopher, 239 -240
Collège de France, 391
Collins, William, English lyric poet and early romantic, 170 , 171
Commentaries, Byzantine, 48
Comte, Auguste, 236 -237
Conception, 250
Congrès Allemand de Médicine Internationale, 321
Congreve, William (1670-1729), English Restoration dramatist, 160
Consciousness, 261
Constantine the African, 55 ;
Expositio Aforismi , 55 ;
In Hippocratis Aphorismi , 57
Constantine Prophyrogenitus, Byzantine emperor, 46
Constantinople, 46
Convulsions, 15
Coquetry, 157 -158
Cosmology, 98
Cowper, William ( 1731-1800), English poet, 170 , 171 , 177
Craig, Maurice, nineteenth-century London physician, 247
Craiglockhart Hospital, 326
Crichton-Miller, Hugh, early twentieth-century military doctor, prescription to cure shell-shocked military officers, 323
Crime, 161
Cullen, William, 166 , 177 , 183 -184, 262 ;
First Lines of the Practice of Physic , 181 ;
theory of hysteria in relation to neurosis, 181 -184
Culture, 169 ;
Augustan, 162 ;
eighteenth century, 165 ;
Georgian, 162
Cuppies, Thomas, famous Enlightenment doctor, 168
Czech language, the, 420
D
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé (1789-1851), French scene painter and physicist, use of photography in treatment of the mentally ill, 356
Daily Chronicle , 320
Daily Mirror , 320
Danish, the, 430
Darnell, Octapia, hysterical character in Roland Blake , 299
Darwin, Charles, Descent of Man , 427 ;
reference to by Francis Warner in The Expression of Emotions in Men and Animals , 383 ;
study of the nature of expression, 382
Darwin, Erasmus, English poet and scientist, 172
Daudet, Leon, Les Morticoles (1894), 310
Daumer, Georg Friedrich, 429
David-Ménard, Monique, French twentieth-century psychoanalyst, 265 , 326 , 328 ;
Hysteria from Freud to Lacan (1983), 328
Davidson, Peter, presentation of a case of hystero-catalepsy from Liverpool, 392 -393
Deafness, 322
Death, hysteria mistaken for, 33 -35, 46 , 51 , 56 , 63
Decorum, cults of, 155 -165;
variegated, 162
Déga, Dr. Georgette, her studies at the medical faculty of Bordeaux, 313
Deity, 119
Delerium tremens, 229
Demonology, 98 ;
early modern diagnoses of demoniacs, 231
Denmark, hysteria in, 168
Depression (see also Spleen, Vapors), 141
Derangement, somatic, 99
Descartes, René, 108 , 117 , 143 ;
Cartesian cogito , 237 , 243 ;
Cartesian dualism, 108 , 184 , 234 ;
Cartesian ontology, 234 ;
Cartesian science, xi , 95
Deutsch, Felix, physician who treated Ida Bauer after she broke off her analysis with Freud, 423
Devil, the, 117 , 121 , 122 , 131 , 361
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual , the English-speaking world's authoritative psychiatric handbook, 230
Diamond, Hugh W., 358 ;
the case of "A. D., aged 20," 355 ;
introduction of photography into the treatment of the mentally ill, 353 ;
paper "On the Application of Photography to the Physiognomic and Mental Phenomena of Insanity," 355 ;
portrait of a case of religious melancholy," 354
Dickens, Charles, Little Dorrit , 185
Diderot, Denis (1713-1784), French philosopher, 243
Didi-Huberman, Georges, study of Jean-Martin Charcot, 312
Diepgen, P., 41
Diet, neo-Pythagorean, 176 ;
and Thomas Tryon, 176
Digestion, 10
Diocles of Carystos, therapy used for hysterical pnix , 35
Diogenes Laertius, 34 -35, 63 -64
Disease, 40 , 117 ;
Hippocrates' theory of, 16 , 27 , 29 -30;
historical identification of, 226 ;
mutation of, 225 -226;
taxonomy of, 161 -162
Dissection, 36 ;
as vivisection, 42
Divine Mind, the, 237
Doddridge, Dr. Philip, 171
Donkin, Dr. Bryan, nineteenth-century English physician, 302 , 305
Donne, John, 136
Dora, the hysterical patient made famous by Freud (see also Bauer, Ida), ix , 228 , 233 , 286 , 316 -319, 331 -333, 430
Dorset, in the West Country, 138
Drama, Jacobean and Restoration, 135 ;
reflecting hysteria, 160
Dramatists, the, 131
Drawing up of limbs, 10 , 47
Drayton, Michael (1563-1631), English poet, Poly-Olbion , 127
Dream analysis, technique for curing hysteria, 315 , 323
Drink, 161
DuBois, W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt), Dusk of Dawn (1940), 334 -335
Dupont, J. C., 168
Duras, Marguerite, xvi , 97 , 99 -101, 103 -104, 106 , 124 ;
La Douleur , 104 ;
The Malady of Death , 104 ;
The Ravishing of Lol Stein , 104
Durling, R. J., 50
Dykstra, Bram, 248
E
Ecole Freudienne, school for psychoanalysis in Paris, 328
Ecole Polytechnique, 295
Eddy, Mary Baker, founder of Christian Science, 290
Eder, David, member of early twentieth-century group practicing Freudian psychotherapy in London, 324
Edinburgh, 156 ;
medical school at, 166 , 168 , 175 , 179 , 181 -182
Education, medical, 64
Education of women, 297 -298, 327
Egypt, Greco-Roman influences on, 36 , 43
Eissler, Kurt, hypothesis about the discovery of psychoanalysis, 320
Elias, Norbert, 237
Elizabethan period, the, 128 , 136 , 167 , 230
Ellenberger, Henri, vii -viii, 5
Elliot-Smith, G., early twentieth-century military doctor, prescription to cure shell-shocked military officers, 323
Ellis, Havelock (1859-1939), English psychologist, 297 , 309 , 427
Empedocles, 33 -34, 52 -53
Empiricists, the, 40 , 119
Encyclopedists, Byzantine and ancient, 37 , 41 , 44 -45, 47 -48, 50 , 53
England, 134 , 136 , 142 , 153 , 160 , 167 -168, 182 -184, 293 , 296 -297, 300 , 306 , 321 ;
during the Enlightenment, 151 ;
early modern, 225
England, Tudor Stuart, great sweat and plague in, 226
English, the, 254 ;
civilized life, 153
English Civil War, the, 138
"English Malady," the (see also Cheyne), 152 -274 passim
English Restoration, the, 136 -237, 143 -145, 149 , 160 ;
libertinism during, 144 ;
hedonism during, 144
Enlightenment science (see also Newton, Newtonianism, and French Revolution), 150 -176
Entralgo, Lain, 238
Epilepsy, 19 , 23 , 37 , 39 ;
history of, 379 ;
hysterical epilepsy, 258
Ergotism, and mass hysteria, 225
Erotomania, 272 -173
Esgers, Jan, medical student of Herman Boerhaave, 168
Esquirol, J.-E.-D., creator of first modern psychiatric atlas, 116 , 257 , 349
Etherege, Sir George, 1635-1691, English Restoration dramatist, 160
Etiquette, codes of, 160
Euporiston , translated by Theodorus Priscianus, 48
Euripides, 132 ;
Hippolytus , 104
Europe, 148 -149, 156 , 182 , 226 , 228 , 287 , 305 ;
early modern, 130 , 134 ;
medieval, 227 ;
modern culture emerging around 1700, 136 ;
Western, 54 , 114 , 153
European Enlightenment, x , 95 -96, 100 -101, 106 -107, 124 , 132 , 141 , 147 , 149 , 153 , 157 -158, 164 , 171 , 177 , 182 , 227 , 238 , 243 , 247 ;
aesthetic theory, 358 ;
art, 356
Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 263-339?), Greek historian, 429
Eve, 131
Evelina, in the novel by Frances Burney, 163
Exhibition of the Arts of Women in Paris, 310
F
Fabre, Jean Henri (1823-1925), French entomologist and author, 287
Face, the, 383
Faculté de Paris, the, 307
Fainting, 10
Fairbairn, William R. D., 233
Falconer, William, 178
Falret, Jules, 302 , 305
Family, the, stability of, 306
Farmer, Hugh, An Essay on the [male] Demoniacs of the New Testament, 171
Farington, Joseph, British landscape painter, 178
Faulkner, Benjamin, owner and operator of a private madhouse at Little Chelsea in London, 178
Fear, psychoanalytic issue of, 326
Febvre, Lucien, 198
Fedikew, Patricia, "Marguerite Duras: Feminine Field of Hysteria," 101
Felix, Cassius, first-century A.D . African writer, 48
Fellatio, 420 , 426 , 430
Female lunacy, 179 -184
Female reproductive system, the, 251 , 298 , 329
Femininity, theory of, 287
Feminism, 97 , 111 , 286 , 288 , 290 , 305 -306, 329 -331, 333 -335
Féré, Charles, article in the Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpêtriére , 377 ;
image showing sensitive skin of the epileptic, 378
Ferenczi, Sándor, distinction of World War I hysterical symptoms, 321 ;
clinical diary, 365 -366
Fermor, Arabella, 150
von Feuchtersleben, Ernst, nineteenth-century Viennese doctor, 232 , 255 , 293
Fielding, Henry,
Amelia , 264 ;
Captain Booth , 164 ;
Tom Jones , 172
Fienus, Thomas, Renaissance medical theorist, 124
Finch, Anne, the Countess of Winchelsea, 153 ;
The Spleen: A Pindarique Ode by a Lady , 153
First World War, the, 229 , 241
Fishberg, Maurice, 412 ;
The Jews: A Study of Race and Environment (1911), 405
Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880), French novelist, 290
Fletcher, Ian, 306
Fliess, Wilhelm, 233 , 431
Florence, Italy, 63
Fluss, Emil, 425
Food, 161
Fops, 161
van Foreest, Pieter, 63 ;
Observationum et curationum medicinalium , Book 29, 62 ;
Observations, 25 -34, 62 ;
scholia , 34
Forel, August, The Sexual Question (1905), 418
Foreman, Richard, "Ontological-Hysteric Theatre," 137
Forsyth, David, member of early twentieth-century group practicing Freudian psychotherapy in London, 324
Fortuna, Bona, Treatise on the Viaticum , 113
Foucault, Michel, xvii , 95 -96, 113 , 162 , 179 , 237 , 250 ;
and female, 150 -172 passim;
History of Madness , 250 ;
History of Sexuality , 303 ;
inner spaces, 162
Fracassini, A., 168
France, 136 , 142 , 149 , 162 , 168 , 174 , 183 , 291 , 302 , 306 , 320 ;
the fourth Republic of, 105
Franklin, Benjamin, 361 -362
Fraser, Lawrence, 168
Frau K., wife of Herr K., 426 -427, 436
Free association, technique for curing hysteria, 315 , 323
Free will, 131
French, the, 153 ;
civilized life, 153
French Revolution, the, 92 , 181 -183, 184 , 360 , 370
Freud, Amalia, mother of Sigmund Freud, 426
Freud, Anna, 327
Freud, Martin, son of Sigmund Freud, 426
Freud, Sigmund, vii -x, xv -xvii, 92 -94, 98 , 102 , 105 , 115 , 124 , 142 , 145 , 156 , 180 , 184 , 227 -228, 231 -234, 236 , 238 , 264 -265, 288 -289, 305 , 314 -319, 323 , 325 , 327 -328, 331 , 333 , 359 , 364 -366, 402 , 404 -405, 412 , 415 -417, 420 , 422 -423, 425 -428, 430 -431;
death wish, 237 ;
Differential Diagnosis of Organic and Hysterical Paralysis (1886), 415 ;
Dora , 317 , 419 , 436 ;
"The Dynamics of Transference," 318 ;
ego, 237 ;
free-floating unconscious, 118 , 234 , 237 ;
Freudian "mind doctors," 247 ;
id, 237 ;
Interpretation of Dreams , 366 , 411 ;
letter to Emil Fluss, 425 ;
Oedipal conflicts, 327 ;
Oedipal triangle, 420 ;
paper "On Male Hysteria," 314 ;
Studies on Hysteria , 300 , 315 -316, 419 ;
penis envy, 327 ;
super ego, 237 ;
theory of sexual etiology of the neuroses, 320 ;
theory of sexuality, 325 ;
translation of Charcot's Lecons de Mardi , 314 ;
use of Charcot's nosological category, 419
Frings, Monsignor Joseph, view about being Jewish in the twentieth century, 425
Froment, Jules, twentieth-century neurologist, 366 -367
Fuchs, Leonhart (1501-1566), translator of 1545 edition of Aphorisms , 60
Fumigation, remedy for ancient gynecological conditions, 20 -21
Furor uterinus (see also Gynecology, Uterus, Vagina), 112 -145 passim
Fussell, Paul, conclusion that out of World War I there originated a new world of mythology, 324 ;
glossary of the romantic vocabulary of World War I, 324
G
Gabriel, Georges-François Marie, unpublished image of Eugene Hugo, 349
Gale, Susan (see also Wordsworth), 177
Galen of Pergamum, x , 5 -6, 22 , 25 -28, 35 , 37 -39, 41 -47, 50 -64, 120 ;
commentary on Hippocratic Aphorisms , 55 , 58 -60;
De usu respirationis , 33 ;
model of the body, 46 ;
On the Affected Parts , 26 , 34 , 41 , 53 , 60 ;
On the Method of Healing the Glaucon , 49 , 54 ;
Tegni , 57 ;
theory of "hysterical suffocation," 34
Galileo, 117
Gallop, Jane, 288
Galton, Francis, composite photography, 402 , 411 ;
"composite" and "component" images of the Jew, 410 ;
photographs of "boys in the Jews' Free School, Bell Lane," 409
Gamgee, Arthur, Professor of Physiology at Owens College, Manchester, account of Charcot's experiments with hypnotism in the British Medical Journal , 349 , 359
Gay, John (1685-1732), English playwright and poet, 160 , 164
Gay, Peter, 238
Gender, 136 -137, 170 , 172 , 175 , 178 , 182 , 293 , 305 , 367 ;
theory of, 228
Gender ideology, 330
Genital passage, the, 366
Genitalia, 38 , 43 , 307 -308, 391 , 420 -421, 426 , 431 ;
circumcised, 411 ;
female, 425 ;
male, 425
Gentleman's Magazine , 171
Georget, Etienne, 262
German language, 435
Germanic school of neurophysiology, the, 236
Germany, 168 , 174 ;
alleged weakening of by the Jews, 435
Gérôme, Jean Léon (1824-1904), French historical and genre painter, 345
Ghost in the machine, the, 231 ;
ontology of, 243
Gilles de la Tourette, Georges, essay on the schematic representation of the hysteric, 391
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1831-1908), American feminist, reformer, and educator, 186 , 300 ;
"The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892), 299
Gilman, Sander, Jewish Self-Hatred , 425
Girls, Roman Catholic, 388
Gissing, George, character Alma Rolfe in The Whirlpool (1897), 306
Globus hystericus , condition resulting when the wandering womb of a Greek woman becomes lodged in her throat, 402
Glover, Mary (see also Edward Jorden), 116 -121
God, 121 , 171
Gold fever, 226
Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774), English poet and dramatist, 160
Goldspeigel, Hêléne, Contribution à l'étude de l'hystérie chez les enfants (1888), 313
Gosling, Francis, 246 , 296
Gourevitch, D., 24
Gout, in relation to femininity, 168 ;
to hysteria, 168
Grande hystérie , prolonged and elaborate convulsive seizure, 307 , 312 , 416 ;
arcen-cercle phase , 308 , 345 , 359 , 361 -362, 368 ;
the "attitudes passionnelles," 308 , 362 ;
the "clownism" phase, 308 ;
the epileptoid phase, 308
Graphic , the British newspaper, 356
Grasset, J., view that cerebral-spinal degeneracy is the source of all hysteria, 385
Graves, Robert, famous shell-shock patient, 324
Gray, Thomas (1716-1771), English poet, 170 -171
Great plague of Athens, 226 ;
as described by Thucydides, 225
"Great sweat" of early-Tudor England, 226
Greeks, the, 4 , 14 , 17 , 91 , 97 , 205 , 185 , 232 , 238 , 372 , 374 ;
East, 55 , 64
Green, Monica, 65 ;
On the Method of Healing, to Glaucon , 43 , 56
Greenblatt, Stephen, 158
Greer, Germaine, The Female Eunuch , 126
Griesinger, Wilhelm, German psychiatrist, 254 ;
Mental Pathology and Therapeutics , 255
Gross, C. G, 168
Guidott, Thomas, English Restoration physician, 168 -170
Guillain, Georges, Jean-Martin Charcot's student and biographer, 309
Guitti, Eliogoro, belief that hysteria manifests itself internally, 391 ;
image of an hysterical gut from "Osservazioni Cliniche," 393
Gurowski, Adam, Polish noble, 434
Gutmann, Julius Moses, writing on the structure of the Jewish face, 410
Guze, S. B., 4
Gynecology, 249 -251, 260 ;
ancient Greek, 4 , 16 , 17 , 37 , 40 , 41 , 50 ;
Hippocratic, 5 , 9 , 16 -17, 55 , 57 ;
Latin, 54
H
van de Haghen, C., medical student of Hermann Boerhaave, 168
Haight, Gordon, 296
Hamlet, 95
Hammond, William, 1876 history of hysteria, 372
Hand, the hysterical traumatic paralysis of, and hysterical hand, 391
Hapsburg Empire, 420
Hardy, Thomas, character Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure (1895), 306
Harrington, Anne, 258
Harsnett, Samuel, A Declaration of Egregious Popishe [sic] Impostures. . . Under the Pretence of Casting Out Devils (1603), 127
Harvard Medical School, 314
Harvey, William, discoverer of the circulation of the blood, 33 , 115 , 117 , 126 , 131 -133
Haslam, John, an official at Bethlehem for two decades, 178 , 251
Haygarth, John, late-eighteenth-century medical theorist, treatise Of the Imagination, as a Cause and as a Cure of Disorders of the Body , 178
Heart, the, 162
Heberden, William, 263 -264, 244 -245
Hebrew language, 425 , 430
Hebrews, the, 8
Hecquet, Philippe, French physician of the ancien régime, Le naturalisme des convulsions dans les maladies de l'épidémie convulsionnaire (1733), 170
Hegar, Alfred, nineteenth-century physician known for the practice of hysterectomy and ovariectomy, 255
Heitz, Jean, essays to the Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpêtriére , 372
Helmholtz, Hermann (1821-1894), German scientist, 238
Heracleides of Pontus, 33 -35, 46 ;
Apnous, 35
Heresy, 117
Herndl, Diane, 333
Herodotus, 31
Herophilus of Chalcedon, 36 , 40
Herr, K., 423 , 427 -428
Hervey, Lord, English political figure and diarist, 167
Hesiod, 17
Highmore, Nathaniel, 145 , 168 , 262 ;
etiology from "bad blood," 140
"Hipp and hyppish," as related to hysteria, 167
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, 3 , 16 , 29 , 26 , 33 , 38 , 43 , 63 , 92 , 104 , 106 , 115 , 118 , 153 , 231 , 250
Hippocratic corpus of writings, 3 -5, 8 -9, 11 -12, 16 , 18 , 26 , 28 -29, 32 , 36 -38, 41 -42, 48 -50, 55 , 57 , 59 , 64 ;
Aphorisms , 5 , 8 , 45 , 47 -48, 50 , 54 , 57 -60;
Diseases of Women , 7 , 14 -20, 23 , 25 -27, 30 -32, 36 -38, 45 , 48 -50, 54 , 56 ;
Diseases of Young Girls , 56 ;
Generation , 4 , 6 , 8 , 28 , 30 , 31 ;
Nature of the Child , 30 -31;
Nature of Woman , 14 -15, 22 , 38 ;
On the Sacred Disease , 30 ;
Places in man , 30 ;
Prognostics , 57 ;
Regimen , 31
Hippocratic scent therapy, 26 , 38 , 41 , 43 , 44 , 46 -48, 51 -52, 54 , 56 , 61 , 64
Hippocratic womb, the (see also Womb), 25
Hirschfeld, Magnus, nineteenth-century German sexologist, 427
Hitler, Adolf, discussion of syphilis in Mein Kampf , 432 , 434 -436
von Höblin, C., and Alzheimer, A., "Ein Beitrag zur Klinik und pathologischen Anatomie der Westphal-Strümpellschen Pseudosklerose," image of the brain structure of the hysteric, 388
Hodges, Devon, 129
Hogarth, William (1697-1764), English painter and engraver, 174
Holdheim, Samuel, Jewish rabbi and nineteenth-century reform leader, 429 -430
Holland, 148 , 162 , 168
Holländer, Eugen, twentieth-century physician, historian, and art critic, 372
Holocaust, 104
Homosexuality, 319 , 326 , 334 ;
Male, 292 , 304 , 324 , 431
"Hôpital Charcot," the, 307
Horney, Karen (1885-1952), American psychiatrist and founder and dean of American Institute of Psychoanalysis, 327
Horowitz, Rabbi Lazar, spiritual leader of the orthodox Jewish community in Vienna in the nineteenth century, 430
Howells, Winifred, 299
Human organism, the, 99
Humanists, Erasmus, 123 ;
More, 123 ;
Petrarch, 123 ;
Renaissance, 123
von Humboldt, Alexander, letter to the Duchess Friederike von Anhalt-Dessau, 357
Hume, David, 158
Hunain ibn Ishaq al-`Ibadl, known to the West as Johannitius, 50 ;
Isagoge , 57
Hungarian language, 420
Hunt, Leigh, play, A Legend of Florence , 63
Hunter, Dianne, 316 , 335 ;
"Hysteria, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism: The Case of Anna O," 101
Hunter, Richard, 175
Huntingdon's chorea, 256
Hurst, Arthur F., paper on battle fatigue (1918), 384 ;
study of hysterical contractures, 366 -367, 370 , 391
Hypnosis, 258 , 307 , 315 , 323 , 349
Hypochondria, 255 , 293 -294;
stigmatization of, 294
Hysteria, bisexuality, 288 ;
education, 297 -298, 327 ;
gender, 286 -287, 289 ;
introspection, 246 -247;
marriage, 23 , 24 , 56 ;
menstruation, 13 , 251 -253;
passivity, 297 -299, 314 -317;
sex roles, 302 -303;
causes of, stress, 228 -229, 242 -243, 246 , 295
Hysteria, creativity in relation to, 168 -170
Hysteria, diagnosis of, as physical, 11 -12, 23 -24, 227 -229, 232 , 236 -237, 239 , 244 , 252 -255, 259 -260;
as psychological, 23 , 228 , 232 -233, 233 -234, 236 -239, 247 -248, 261 -265, 288 ;
retrospectively, 9 , 10 -11, 53 , 227 -229, 231 ;
and hypnotism, 258 ;
and magnetism, 258 -259;
and neurology, 255 -260;
by women, 287 ;
in men (see Male hysteria); by Hippocrates, 17 -25
Hysteria dissenters and (see also Hysteria; feminism and), 171 -175, 334 -335
Hysteria, doubles in, 173 -175
Hysteria, the Enlightenment and, 152 -168;
golden age of, 140 -168,
especially 161 -163,
and gout, 168
Hysteria, falsification of (see also War neurosis), by women, 62 , 255 , 261 -262, 263 -264, 300 -302, 327 ;
by men, 321 -326
Hysteria, feminism and (see also Feminism), 306 -306, 316 -317, 320 , 326 -330, 332 -333
Hysteria gender constructs and, 289 , 292 -293, 303 -304, 305 -306, 309 , 319 , 326 , 333 ;
and representations of hysteria, 309 -310
Hysteria, gender formation and, 140 -178,
especially 168 -170; 229 , 288
Hysteria, history of, 4 -5, 8 , 9 -10, 12 , 226 , 229 -230, 231 -236, 287 -288, 303 -304, 313 , 328 -330, 332 -333, 335 ;
and language, 290 -291;
by women, 313 , 328 -330
Hysteria, imitation as crucial in, 180 -182
Hysteria, latent, 258
Hysteria, the law and, 204
Hysteria, male (see also Neurasthasia), 10 -11, 140 -176 passim, 290 -291, 304 -305, 307 -309;
alternative conditions and terms for, 235 , 255 , 290 -297, 313 -314, 321 , 326 ;
and bonding among males, 168 -170;
and feminine nervous constitutions among males, 169 , 229 , 289 ;
and Freud, 314 -315;
and hysteria in women, 13 , 307 , 309 -310, 315 ;
and poetic genius, 168 ;
psychogenic explanations for, 164 -166;
and temperamental sensitivity among males, 169 ;
and World War I (see also War Neurosis), 321 ff.;
and women analysts, 333
Hysteria, mass, 10 ;
as symptoms of ergotism, 225
Hysteria, mock-epic novels and, 172
Hysteria, nymphomania and, 172 -173
Hysteria, organic resonance and, 185
Hysteria, paradoxes of, 173 -177
Hysteria, predictability of, 180 -183
Hysteria, psychoanalysis and, 319 -320
Hysteria, shell shock and (see also War Neurosis), 323 -324
Hysteria, sterility in women and, 291 -293, 305 -306
Hysteria, the surrealists and, 312 -313
Hysteria, taxonomy and, 179 -182
Hysteria, treatment of (see also Hysteria, male; Sexual intercourse; War Neurosis), 20 -24, 26 , 36 , 37 , 43 -47, 51 -52, 54 , 244 -248, 254 , 300 -302;
by women doctors, 41 , 299 -300, 327 , 333 ;
by reconstruction of the patient's story (see also Hysterical narrative), 318 -319, 333 ;
compression of genitals, 307 -308;
doctor-patient relations (see also Feminism), 10 -11, 23 , 244 -245, 298 -299;
evaluation of, 35 , 303 , 310 -311, 319 , 327 ;
incurable, 253 ;
literary characteristics of, 317 -318;
and marriage, 317 -318;
and women's independence, 316 -318, 326 -327
Hysteria, working-class women and, 305 , 320
Hysteria as zeitgeist disease , 9 , 158 -168, 164 -165
Hysteric as performer, 309 -311, 320 ;
and catarrh, 168 ;
visibility of the, 142 -176 passim
Hysterica passio , 127 -129
Hysterical gout, 167 -169
Hysterical mania, 169
Hysterical narrative, 318 -319, 333 , 335
"Hystérie virile" term used by Jean-Martin Charcot to describe his concept of male hysteria, 309
Hysterika, meaning of, 5 -6, 7 -8, 12 -13, 15 , 41 -42
Hysterike pnix , medical symptom identified by the Hippocratics as "suffocation of the womb," 5 , 6 , 14 -20, 22 , 29 -32, 35 -36, 38 , 40 -48, 50 -51, 54 , 56 , 58 -59, 61 , 64 , 98
Hystero-epilepsy, 227 , 377
Hysterogenic zone, 307 -308
I
Iatromechanists, 184
Ibn al-Jazzar, 53 -56;
Kitab Zad al-Musafir , 52 , 55
Ibn Sina (Avicenna), discussions of hysterical suffocation in his Qanum (the Canon ), 52 , 57 , 62 -63
Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrieére , three-volume medical atlas, 374
Idealism, conflict with materialism, 238 -241
Iliad, the, 30
Illustrated London News , British newspaper, 356
Imaginary, the, 332
Imagination, Elizabethan, the, 137 ;
Restoration, the, 137 ;
as the source of hysteria, 404
Imagination, and disease, 148 -178 passim;
and hysteria, 163 -165, 404
Indians, Sioux, 294
Individualism, in relation to hysteria, 162 ;
and narcissism, 162
Inflammation of the reproductive organs, 179
Inquisition, the, 352
Insanity, 261
Instinct and the Unconscious , 325
Intellect (see also Sedentary life), 160 -162, 261
Introspection, 246 -247
Isenflamm, J. F., 168
Islamic culture, 53 , 64
Israel, Lucien, L'hystérique, le sexe, et le médecin , 290
Italy, hysteria in, 162 , 168
J
Jackson, Elizabeth, arraigned on charge of bewitching the fourteen-year-old Mary Glover, 116
Jackson, John Hughlings, difference be tween Jackson's model of hysteria and Charcot's model of hysteria, 417 ;
view hysteria as a dissolution of the higher functions of the nervous system, 365
Jacob, Joseph, 412 ;
discussion of Galton's finding of the absolute Jewishness of the gaze, 409 -410
Jacobus, Mary, 180 , 332
Jacyna, L. S., 249
James, Dr. Robert, 152
Janet, Pierre, French neurologist, 100 , 112 , 227 , 230 , 259 , 265 , 314
Jansenists, 370 , 372
Jardine, Alice, Gynesis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity , 101
Jenner, Edward, Gloucestershire doctor and smallpox researcher, 173 , 293
Jews, 420 , 422 -423, 425 -426, 428 , 431 -436;
circumcised, 431 , 433 ;
Eastern, 372 , 382 ;
as a high risk group for contracting the disease hysteria, 405 -406, 410 -418;
as a religious category, 374
Jewson, Nicholas, 244
Johannes, Platearius, De aegritudinum curatione , 56
Johns Hopkins University, 328
Johnson, Ben, 136
Johnson, Samuel, 134 , 163
Jones, Ernest, member of early twentieth-century group practicing psychotherapy in London, 324 , 327
Jordanova, Ludmilla, 291
Jorden, Edward, 112 , 114 , 116 , 118 -124, 126 -127, 129 , 133 , 149 , 232 ;
A Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother , 29 , 62 -63, 114 , 117
Jorge, Jose M., "Coxalgia histérica," X ray image from, 292
Joubert, Laurent, the chancellor of the University of Montpellier, 123
Judaism, 429 -430
Judischer Frauenbund, the League of Jewish Women, 316
K
Kahane, Claire, 288
Katz, Susan, view about Freud's ideological position towards women and men, 318
Keller, Evelyn Fox, 291
Kelley, Mary, 286
Kierkegaard, Soren, xv
Kilgour, Dorothy, From Communion to Cannibalism: Metaphors of Incorporation , xvi
King, Helen, 227 , 231
Klein, the Hungarian Jew who wandered on foot to Paris and was admitted to the Salpêtriére the next day, 406
Klein, Melanie, 327
Kohon, Gregorio, British hysterical analyst, 287
Krafft-Ebing, Richard, belief that civilization regularly brings forth degenerate forms of sexuality, 418 , 427
Kristeva, Julia, viii , 97 , 103 , 111 , 124
Krohn, Dr. Alan, 106 , 125 , 165 , 226 , 230 -231
L
Lacan, Jacques, xvi , 95 , 132 , 333 , 334 , 420
Lady Mary, 167
Lamarque, Henri, and Bitot, Emile, 397 ;
description of the schematic representation of the hysteric, 391 ;
image of the posture of the schematic patient from "Sur un cas d'hystéro-traumatisme chez l'homme," 395
Langenheim, William and Frederick, use of lantern slides for the "moral" treatment of the patients in the Philadelphia Hospital for the Insane, 356
Langhorne, John, Letters on Religious Retirement, Melancholy, and Enthusiasm (London, 1762), 177
Language, 117 , 143 , 290
Laqueur, Thomas, 130 , 250
Lattes, L., work on changes in the quality of the hysteric's face, 384
Latin West, the, 55 , 57 , 64
Laurenziani, Lorenzo (ca. 1450-1502), 59
Lavater, Johann Caspar, his study of physiognomy, 383
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent, 362
Lawyers, in New York, 294
Laycock, Thomas, British psychophysiologist, 262 ;
Treatise on the Nervous Diseases of Woman , 63
Layne, George S., 356
Lederer, Wolfgang, Gynophobia ou la Peur des Femmes , xii
Lefkowitz, M. R., 15
Leoniceno, Niccolò (1428-1524), translator of the Theodorus Gaza edition of the Articella , 59
Leontes, 129 ;
The Winter's Tale , 128
Lepois, Charles, the Italian physician also known as Carlo Piso (1563-1633), 139 -140
Lewis, Bevan, mid-Victorian British physician, 246
Lewis, G., 8
Lewis, I. M., 23
Leytonstone, London suburb where Robert Carter practiced medicine, 262
Lieutaud, Joseph, 124
Lilien, Ephraim Moses, drawing of a Jewish female, 408
Linton, Eliza Lynn, term "the shrieking sisterhood," 306
Literary criticism, 143 , 289
Little Hans, one of Freud's patients, 318
Littré, Emile, Dictionnaire de la langue françraise (1863-1877), 13 -15, 20 -21, 23 , 29 -30
Liver, 19 , 22 , 23 , 32 , 49
Liverpool Medical History Society/Society for the History of Science, the, 65
Locke, John, xii , 138 ;
Essay Concerning Human Understanding , 148
Logos , the, 27
Lombroso, Cesare, 427 ;
study of epileptics, 377
Londe, Albert, head of the Salpêtriére's photographic service, 350 , 379
London, England, 136 , 138 , 156 , 170 , 182 , 292
London Times , the, 320
Lord Hervey, target of Alexander Pope's satire in Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot , 167
Lote, George, Rabelais scholar, 123
Louis XVI, French king (1754-1790), 184
Louyer-Villermay, Jean Baptiste, French physician, 292
Love, 99 , 120
Love sickness, 112 -114
Lovelace, Ada, Byron's daughter, 227
Lusitanus, Amatus, 63
Luys, Dr. J.-B. (1848-1897), author of an early photographic medical atlas, 349 , 385 ;
image of the hysteric's brain from "Recherches nouvelles sur les hémiplégies emotives," 387
Luys, Georges, brother of Dr. J.-B. Luys, photograph "Esther," 349
Lynch, John, view on the exploitation of manliness during World War I, 325
M
Macalpine, Ida, 175
Maddock, Alfred Beaumont, 253
Madhouses, 171 -178
Madness, 178 -182;
theory of, 175
MacDonald, Michael, 125
Magic, 117 , 125 , 127
Male hysteria, see under Hysteria, male
Malleus Maleficarum , the "Witches Hammer," 115
Mandeville, Bernard, English satirical writer on economic and ethical subjects, 146 -147, 151 , 154 , 158 , 162 , 168 , 184 , 245 ;
The Fable of the Bees , 145 ;
Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Passions , 146
Mann, W. N., 8
Manners, cults of, 160 -162
Mannheimer, Isaac Noah, rabbi of the Seitenstettengasse synagogue, 430
Mantegazza, Polo, study of Erthroxylon and its derivative, cocaine, 427 ;
trilogy on love and sex, Fisiologia dell' amore (1872), Igiene dell' amore (1872), and Gli amori degli uomini (1885), 427 -428, 431 , 433
Mantias, follower of Herophilus, 36
Mantua, Countess of, 120
Mao Tse-tung, leader and founder of Chinese Communist party, 228
Maplet, John, English Restoration physician, 168 -170
Marcellus Empiricus, Book of Medicines , 44
Marcellus, Marcus Claudius, commentary on Dioscorides, Philotheus, and Paul of Aegina, 59
Marriage, 23 , 24
Marsden, C. D., 9
Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) (A.D.C . 40-c. 104), Epigrams , 42 , 62
Martin, Emily, 291
Martin du Gard, Roger (1881-1958), French novelist, 309
Martineau, Harriet, 134
Marx, Karl, description of his archrival Ferdinand Lassalle, 435
Marxism, 419 -420
Masson, Jeffrey, 255 ;
views about Freud's patient Dora, 317
Masturbation, 317 , 319 , 422 -423, 429 ;
anti-masturbation campaigns, 182 -186;
masturbatory disease, 388
Materialism, philosophies of, 117 , 157 , 180 , 240
Mathematics, 150
Matossian, Mary, 225 , 226
Maudsley, Henry, late Victorian psychiatrist, 240 , 247 , 251 , 254 , 297 , 302 ;
and materialism, 254
Maudsley Hospital, 327
Maulitz, Russell, 249
Mead, George Herbert, remarks about the fundamental assumptions of science, 415
Mechanics, Newtonian, 151 , 163 ;
mechanism, 117
Medical education, 45 -46, 49
Medical history, 225 , 226 , 230 ;
changes in nineteenth century, 248 -249;
emergence of specialized fields, 249
Medical schools, hysteria and, 168
Medical theory, 119 , 133 , 165 , 167 , 171 , 174
Medicine, 64 , 119 , 123 , 129 , 166 , 181 , 236 , 239 -240, 248 -250, 266 , 289 ;
Arabic, 44 , 55 -56;
Assyrian, 16 ;
Babylonian, 16 ;
Byzantine, 47 ;
Enlightenment, 146 , 255 ;
Galenic, 54 -56;
Georgian, 152 ;
Hippocratic, 3 , 8 , 15 -16, 18 , 24 , 29 , 40 , 49 , 54 , 61 ;
mathematical, 154 ;
mechanical, 177 ;
medieval European, 52 ;
nineteenthcentury, 245 , 250 , 253 , 257 , 265 , 269 ;
Roman, 24 ;
Western, 92
Medieval world, the, 64 , 91 , 107
Meige, Henry, editor of the Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpêtriére after 1901, 372 ;
dissertation of 1893 on the wandering Jew, 411 ;
image of Moser C., 413 ;
image showing the physiognomy and the gaze of "Gottlieb M.," 414 ;
image of a wandering Jew as the model for the psychopathology of the Eastern Jew, 412
Melancholy, 293
Mendoza, Rafael, character in William Thackeray's Codlingsby , conversation with Lord Codlingsby, 409
Menopause, 18 , 252
Menstrual pain, 255
Menstruation, 5 , 10 , 18 , 22 , 27 , 37 , 40 , 42 -43, 50 , 52 , 53 , 57 , 250 -253, 298 , 391
Mercier, Charles, 246 , 302 ;
response to David Forsyth's criticism in the Lancet, 324
Merskey, Harold, 230
Mesmer, Franz Anton (17337-1815), German physician responsible for developing the treatment known as mesmerism, 104 , 183 -185, 232 , 359 ;
portrait of, 362
Mesmerism, meaning of, 362
Mesmerism, treatment of hysteria and, 309 -310
Mesmerist, image of the, 360
Methodism, 40 , 372
Methodists, the, 370
Metsitsah , Jewish circumcision ritual, 430
de La Mettrie, Julian, 240
Meynert, Theodor, 238 ;
publicly expressed skepticism about Jean-Martin Charcot's symptomatology, 314
Micale, Mark, xvi -xvii, 65 , 168 , 235 , 257 , 287 , 309 , 313 , 328
Michaelis, Johann David, eighteenth-century German commentator, 429
Michelet, Jules, nineteenth-century French social historian, 97
Middle Ages, the, 96 , 99 , 112 , 118 , 379 ;
late, 97 , 100
Middlesex riots, the, 182
Midwives, 41
Mill, John Stuart, 246
Millar, John, 254
Millett, Kate, 330
Milton, John (1608-1674), 98 , 135
Mind, the, 103 , 113 , 120 , 122 , 156 , 160 , 235 , 237 , 244 , 247 , 383
Mind and body, Cartesian, 162 -168
Mischling , term from racial science parallel to bastard, 435 -436.
Mitchell, Juliet, 111 , 180 , 288 , 319 , 333
Mitchell, Dr. Silas Weir (1829-1914), American physician and author, 176 , 245 -246, 297 -298, 300 , 302 -303;
article in Doctor and Patient , 298 ;
image of the ulcerated skin of the hysteric from "Hysterical Rapid Respiration, With Cases; Peculiar Form of Rupial Skin
Disease in an Hysterical Woman," 389 ;
Roland Blake , 299
Mitchinson, W., on nineteenth-century Canadian medicine, 29
Modernism, 96
Moi, Toril, study about Freud, 318 , 333
Mohel , role performed by the circumciser in the Jewish circumcision ritual metsitah , 430
Monro, Harold (1879-1932), English poet, 178 , 184
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 160 , 167
Monte Cassino, monastery founded c. 529 by St. Benedict of Nursia, 55
de Montgeron, Louis Basile Carré, account of the Jansenist miracles, 370 ;
La verité des miracles operas par l'intercession de M. de Pâris et autres appellans demontrée contre M. L'archevêque de Sens , 371
Montpellier, 123
Moreau de Tours, Jacques Joseph, 346 , 349 ;
1890 photograph "Hysterics of the Charité on the Service of Dr. Luys," 348 , 356 , 359 , 362
Morgagni, Giovanni Battista, Seats and Causes of Diseases . . . (English version 1769), 177
Morris, C. A., British surgeon during the Boer War, 321
Moscucci, Ornella, 249 , 255
Mott, Frederick, early twentieth-century shell-shock treatment theorist, 322
Muhammad ibn-Zakariyya' ar-Razi (Rhazes), twenty-four volume collection of works, citation of Hippocratic text Diseases of Young Girls , 53 ;
Kitab al-Hawi , 51 ;
Kitab al-Mansori , 51
Multiple sclerosis, 256
Munthe, Axel, nineteenth-century Swedish doctor, his description of Charcot's Tuesday lectures, 311
Muscio, translator of Soranus, 39 , 48
Mutism, 322
Myers, Dr. Charles S., case studies of amnesia, impaired vision, and emotional distress among British soldiers in France, 321
Mystics, Catholic, 367
N
Napier, Richard, early Stuart parson-physician, 125
National School of Agronomy, 374
Nazi Germany, 105
Neologisms for hysteria, 167
Nerve culture, 152 -178;
in Georgian England, 156 -176
Nerves, the, 161 , 165 , 170 , 172 -173, 175 , 182 , 227 ;
nerve doctors, 153 , 157 , 162 , 164 -165, 173 , 175 -176, 179 -180, 182 -184, 245 -246, 289 ;
semiotics of, 162
Nervous constitution , term used by Dr. Thomas Sydenham to describe an improperly understood sensation, 142
Nervous discourse, 166 -168
Nervous organization, 150 -178 passim;
metaphors of, 162 -165
Nervous sensibility (see also Sensibility), 161 -162, 163
Nervous style, 166 -167
Nervous system, the, 143 , 146 -147, 150 -151, 154 , 185 , 232 , 252 , 262 , 418 ;
central, 145 ;
female, 103 ;
Newtonian fluxions to, 105 ;
semiotics of, 140 -175 passim
Nervous tension, 160 -168, 160 -172 passim
Netherlands, hysteria in, 168
Neurasthenia, nervous disorder named by George M. Beard defining a condition of nervous exhaustion, 228 , 245 , 294 -297, 306 ;
and "rest cure," 297 -298
Neurobiology, 157
Neurology, 249 , 255 -260
Neurosis, 13
The New Testament , 171
Newton, Sir Isaac, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica , 148 ;
Newtonianism, 151 , 153
Newtonian dissertations on hysteria, 167
Newtonian matter theory, 184
Newtonian revolution, 151 -168
Newtonian science, xi
New York Times , editorial on the 1989 Sunday Mass interruption at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, 334
Nietzsche, Friedrich, xv
Nile river, the, 234
Nilus, Saint, 368
Nishi, H., Chugai Iji Shinpo , chart representing the image of psychic forces in the Japanese male hysteric, 403
North America, 226 , 228
Norwich, county seat of Norfolk, England, 130
Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpêtrière , 349 -351
Nymphomania (see also Hysteria), 172 -173, 254
O
Obstetrics, 249
Oedipal rule, the, 95
Oedipus complex, the, in Freudian psychology, 95
Oedipus Rex , Greek tragedy, 95
O'Hara, Scarlett, 329
Oliver, P., and Halipré, A., "Claudication intermittente chez un homme hystérique atteint de pouls lent permanen," image depicting Charcot's diagnostic category of intermittent claudication, 424
Onania crusades, the, 182 -183
Oribasius, 38 , 44 , 46 , 48 , 50 , 54 ;
Synopsis , 45
Orient, the, 176
Organic chemistry, 249
Orgasm, 262 ;
female, 112 , 130 , 250 , 287
Original sin, Christian doctrine of, 131
Origen (ca. A.D . 185-ca. 254 A.D .), Christian theologian, 35 , 429
Oxford, England, 157
Ovaries, the, 254 , 391
Ovulation, 250
Owen, Wilfred, famous shell-shock patient, 324
Oxford University, 138 -139, 170
P
Paganism, 107
Page, Herbert, Injuries of the Spine and Spinal Cord (1883), 417
Pain, 185 -186;
and emotion, 185 -186
Palingh, Abraham, image of the witch from 't Afgeruckt Mom-Aansight der Tooverye: Daar in bet bedrogh der gewaande Toverye, naakt ontdeckt, en eml gezone Redenen en exemplen dezer Eeuwe aangewezen wort (1887), 374 ;
study of witchcraft, 374
Panic, hysteria and, 164 ;
in relation to crime, 164
Pappenheim, Bertha, 290 , 315 , 332 , 419 -420, 432
Paracelsus, Aureolus, 123 , 232
Paralysis, 10 , 15 , 322
Paré Ambroise, French physician, 115 , 123
Paris, France, 100 , 180 , 295 , 314 , 359
Parkinson's disease, 256
Parma, Italian city, 59
Parry, Caleb, 262
Parsons, Talcot, 233
Pasteur, Louis, developer of a germ theory of contagious disease, 353
Pathology, 176 , 249
Paul of Aegina, 38 -39, 44 , 46 -47, 49 -50, 54
Paul of Aetius, 51
Paul, Saint (d. A.D . 67?), apostle to the Gentiles, 429
Pausanias, 34
Pear, T. M., early twentieth-century military doctor, prescription to cure shell-shocked military officers, 323
Pelvic structure, 391
Penis, as animal, 28 ;
circumcised on a Jewish man, 425 -426;
infection by syphilis, 434
Periander of Corinth, 31
Perkins, Charlotte, nineteenth-century hysteric, 101
Perley-Guze criteria, in psychiatry, 9
Perry, Charles, the Levant, 176 -177;
On the Causes and Nature of Madness (1723), 176
Personal identity (and hysteria diagnosis), 160 -161
Pharmacoepia, 24
Pharoahs, 235
Philaretus, on pulses, 57
Philo (c. 20, B.C .-A.D.C . 50), Alexandrian Jewish philosopher, 429
Philosophy, 165 , 240 ;
mechanical, 163 ;
modern linguistic, 234 ;
natural, 148
Philotheus, 60
Philumenos of Alexandria, 45 -46
Phelgm, 19
Photography, and hysteria, history of, 356 -357;
use as a means of psycho-therapy, 355 -356, 358 , 381 , 392
Physicians, 99 , 102 , 111 , 114 , 120 , 122 , 124 , 143 , 156 , 240 , 249 , 261 , 296 ;
American, 305 ;
Arabic, 37 ;
eighteenth-century, 116 , 123 ;
Enlightenment, 154 , 155 , 242 , 253 ;
London, 170 ;
nineteenth-century, 229 ;
Renaissance, 231 -232;
Victorian, 240 , 298 , 300 , 302
Physiognomy, hysterical, medical literature of, 384
Physiology, 112 , 117 , 130 , 141 , 169 ;
Cartesian, 108 ;
sexual, 99
Pineal gland, 108
Pinel, Philippe (1745-182?), French physician and psychiatrist, 116 , 168 , 179 -180, 232 , 255 , 257 , 261 -262, 349 -350, 362 , 370 , 384
Pitcairne, Archibald, professor of medicine at Leyden and Edinburgh, 151
Pithiatism, suggested alternate terminology for hysteria, 235
Plague, 110 , 225 -226, 435
Plath, Sylvia, 334
Plato, 33 , 35 , 107 , 132 ;
Platonism, 237 , 240 ;
Timaeus , 25 -28, 42 , 44 ;
theory of the womb, 26 , 46 , 52 -53, 118
Platter, Felix (Platterus), 113
Pleasure, 99
Plinca polonica, skin disease attributed by Western dermatologists to the Jews of the East, 379
Pliny, the Elder, 6 , 34 -35, 63
Plutarch, Moralia , 31
Poe, Edgar Allan, essays on the daguerreotype, 358
Poets, Romantic, 132
Politeness, cults of, 157 -164
Pollock, Griselda, nineteenth-century art critic, 310
Pomme, Pierre, French physician, a 168 ;
treatise on "Hysterical Affections in both Sexes," 178 -179
Pope, Alexander, English poet, 153 , 167 ;
The Rape of the Lock , 150 , 158
Portland, Duchess of, 160
Possession, 23
Positivism, logical, 233 ;
medical diagnosis and, 236 , 259 -260;
Third Republic, 259
Poststructuralism, 234
Praxagoras of Cos, 33
Pregnancy, 19 , 22 , 40
Priestley, Joseph, English radical theologian and scientist (1773-1804), 171
Progrès Médical , the Salpêtrière medical journal, 313
Prostitution, 136 ;
link between the Jew and syphilis, 432
Protestant lands, 134
Proteus, sea-god, the son of Oceanus and Tethys, 91 , 100 , 108 , 146 , 166
Psychasthenia, suggested alternate terminology for hysteria, 230
Psyche, 238 ;
female, 105 , 123
Psychiatry, 93 , 138 , 233 , 249 , 259 , 261 , 264 , 289 , 367 ;
psychiatric clinics in Western Europe, 411 ;
rise of, 162
Psychoanalysis, vii , ix , xv , 233 , 235 , 237 -238, 265 , 319 -320, 324 , 328 , 330 ;
Freudian, 93 , 104 , 232 , 288 , 316 , 318 ;
Lacanian, 287 ;
technique of, 315 ;
Viennese schools of, 366
Psychoanalytic method, the, 288
Psycholinguistics, viii
Psychology, 169 , 259 -260,
Freudian, 23
Psychopathology, 367 , 374
Psychosis, 228
Psychotherapy, 120 , 334 ;
Freudian, 324
Purcell, Dr. John, self-professed "nerve doctor," 149 , 153 , 168
Pure Reason, as developed in the tradition of a Christian-Platonic divine-right monarchy, 238
Pybus Club, the, 65
Q
Queen Anne, 149 -150
Queen Victoria, 63
Queensbury Rules, the, 230
Quinsey, the streptoccocal infection, 225
R
Rabelais, François (c. 1490-1553), 134 ;
Gargantua and Pantagruel, 123 ;
Tale of a tub , 152
Radcliffe College, 298
Radcliffe, Dr. John, 149
Railway spine, hysterical trauma resulting from railway accidents, 417 -418
Rakes, 161
Ranelagh Gardens, the, 100
Raphael, citation of by Eugen Holländer, 372 ;
sketch transfiguration , 368 -369, 374
Raulin, Joseph, description of male hysteria in Glafira Abricosoff's book L'hystérie aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles , 313
Ravenna, fifth/sixth-century Italian city, 57 ;
Romanesque mosaics of, 367
Raymond, Fulgence, French psychiatrist who's misquotation by Maurice Fishberg became the leading view in German psychiatry, 405 ;
and Janet, Pierre, "Malformations des mains en `pinces de humard," image "Asymetrie du corps chez une epileptique," 380
Realism, 109 , 111 , 123
Regnard, Paul, 377 ;
image of a visual hallucination, 376 ;
Les maladies épidémiques de l'esprit: sorcellerie magnétisme, morphinisme, délire des grandeurs , 373 , 375 ;
monograph on the visual relationship between magnetism, morphinism, and madness, 374 ;
photographs of Augustine from the second volume of the Iconographie de la Salpêtrière , 372
Reich, Wilhelm, 238 , 289
Reil, Johann, asylum superintendent during the nineteenth century, 261
Reininger, Robert, claim we construct our understanding of the world from our internalized system of values, 436
Religion, history of, 370
Religious enthusiasm, 177
Religious melancholy, 162 -175 passim
Rembrandt, (Harmenszoon van Rijn), tradition of anatomies, 345
Renaissance, the, 57 , 91 , 95 -97, 99 , 101 , 106 -108, 112 , 124 , 126 , 129 , 131 -132, 158 , 181 -183, 227 , 239 , 241 , 292 , 374
Report of the Royal Commission on Mesmerism, 361 -362
Reproductive organs, the, 179 , 254 , 297 , 300
Republic of Letters, the, 160
Respiration, 33 , 47
Rest cure for hysteria, 246 -248;
for neurasthenia, 297 -298;
for shell shock, 323 ;
failure with men, 299 ;
protests against, 299 -300
Revillon, Charles, French physician, author of Recherches sur la cause des affections hypochrondriaques , 170
Revue de l'hypnotisme , 388
Revue photographique des Hôpitax des Pairs , 349
Reynolds, John Russell, A System of Medicine , 289
Richardson, Samuel, 170 ;
Sir Charles Grandison , 152 ;
Clarissa Harlowe (1753), 185
Richer, Antoine, Les Demoniques dans l'Art (1887), 231
Richer, Paul, colleague of Jean-Martin Charcot, 345 , 350 , 367 , 377 , 379 , 383 ;
Études cliniques sur le grande hystérie ou hystéro-épilepsie , 363 ;
"Gonflement du cou chez un hysterique," 351
Risse, G. B., 10
Rivers, W. H. R., early twentieth-century British psychologist, 325 -326;
view on Freud's theory of the unconscious and the method of psycho-analysis founded upon it, 321 ;
study of shell shock, 325 ;
theory of the unconscious, 325
Robb, Dr., nineteenth-century physician, 3 , 7 -8, 14 , 16
Robert-Fleury, Tony, portrait, "Pinel Freeing the Insane," 347 ;
influence of, 345
Robinson, Dr. Nicholas, 151 , 153 , 155 -156, 168 ;
"Newtonian dissertation on hysteria," 167
Romans, the, 4 , 8 , 14 , 36 , 64
Romantics, the, 110 ;
Romantic poetry, 177 ;
Romanticism, 248
Róona, S., work continued from Moriz Kaposi on forms of skin eruptions which could be labeled hysteric, 389
Ross, T. A., suggestions for training World War I soldiers, 324
Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778), French philosopher, 243
Rousselot, Jean, study of medicine in art in post World War II era, 372
Rowley, William, English physician specializing in female diseases, author of A treatise on female, nervous, hysterical, hypochondriacal, bilious, convulsive disease ;
apoplexy and palsy with thoughts on madness and suicide, etc ., 177
Roy, Alec, 230 ;
Hysteria (1982), 10
Royal College, the, 117
Royal Society, the, 146 , 355
Rudolphy, K., "Ohroperationen bei Hysterischen," chart representing the operations of the German hysteric's hearing, 404
Russett, Cynthia, 291
S
Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, comte de (1740-1814), French author known as the marquis de Sade, 184
Sacerdote, A., work on the changes in quality of the hysteric's face, 384
Sadler, John, Sicke Woman's Private Looking-Glasse wherein Methodically are handled all uterine affects, or diseases arising from the wombe; enabling Women to informe the Physician about the cause of their grief e , 131
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 302
Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, 334
Salem witch-hunting trials, 100
Salerno, school of, 55 , 56 , 148
Salmon, Thomas, early twentieth-century British physician, 322
Salpêtrière hospital, 242 , 257 , 259 , 264 , 289 , 302 , 305 , 308 -312, 314 , 345 -346, 349 , 352 , 359 , 365 , 366 -367, 372 , 377 , 383 -384, 406 , 411 , 422 -423
Sartre, Jean Paul (1905-1980), 290
Sassoon, Siegfried, famous shell-shock patient, 324
Satan, 98 , 232 ;
satanism, 99
Satow, Roberta, 4 ,
"Where Has All the Hysteria Gone?" 101
de Sauvages, Boisser, 262
Savage, Sir George, nineteenth-century London physician, 247
Savill, Thomas D., study of skin on hysterical children, 389 ;
image of the hysteric with syphilis from "A Clinical Lecture on Hysterical Skin Symptoms and Eruptions," 390
Schreiner, Olive (1855-1920), South African author and feminist, 292
Science, 129 , 232 , 240 , 259 ;
Enlightenment, 165 ;
nineteenth-century, 176 ;
medical, 231 ;
of the body, 236
Scientific revolution, the, 239
Scotland, 168 , 174 , 183
Scott, Joan, post-World War II American historian, 330
Scriblerians, the, writers' collective, 160
de Schweinitz, George Edmund, Philadelphia opthalmologist in the early twentieth century, 384
Scully, D. H., 4
Sculptured image of a case of hemiplegia from the teaching collection of the Salpêtrière, 385
Sedentary life (see also Intellect), 160 -162
Self-fulfillment, developing codes of, 160 -161
Semiology of illness, 160
Semiotics, medical, 286 , 362 ,
Semites, the, 227
Sennett, Richard, American sociologist, 162
Sensation, 143
Sensibility, cults of, 160 -161
Sergt, M., hysterical patient with wounds on his right forearm, 367
Sexism, 329 -331
Sexual etiology of the neuroses, 324
Sexual intercourse, 40 , 42 , 50 , 52 , 62 , 426 ;
with a circumcised penis, 422
Sexual organs, the, 99 -100, 251 , 297 ;
female, 112 -114, 134
Sexual passions, the, 262
Sexual politics, and hysteria in the eighteenth century, 162
Sexual theory, nineteenth century, 249 -250;
twentieth-century, 132 -133
Sexuality, 136 , 163 , 250 , 292 , 327 , 329 , 333 , 427 ;
female, 93 , 251 , 292 , 303 -304, 335 ;
Greek origins of term, 329 ;
male, 171 ;
repression of, 182 -185, 302 -303, 326
Shakespeare, William, 114 , 123 , 126 -129, 131 , 133 ;
Hamlet , 95 ;
King Lear , 121 , 127 -128
Shamanism, 23
Sharp, Jane, a male "quack doctor" in Restoration England, 132
Shaw, James, study of the concept of asymmetry in the hysteric's face, 384
Shaw, Peter, His Majesty George II's Physician Extraordinary, The Reflector: Representing Human Affairs, As They Are: and may be improved , 163
Shell shock (see also War Neurosis), post traumatic symptom first experienced by soldiers after World War I, 229 , 247 , 292 , 304 , 321 , 326 , 367 , 370
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822), "Ginevra," 63 -64
Shorter, Edward, 9 , 29 , 297 -229, 326
Showalter, Elaine, xiii , xvi ,
Sichel, Max, Jewish physician during World War I, 433
Siemerling, E., view of cerebral-spinal degeneracy as the source of hysteria, 385
Sigerist, Henry, 328
Silverman, Debora, comments about the Central Union of the Decorative Arts program in the 1890s, 310
Simon, Bennett, Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece , 22 -24
Sitwell, Dame Edith, 171
Skae, David, nineteenth-century British physician, 247
Skey, F. C., nineteenth-century English physician, 302
Skin, hysterical; as an image of the disease hysteria, 402 ;
relation between the appearance of skin to the state of the genitalia, 389 , 391 , 434
Skinner, Quentin, 142
Skull, the, 383
Skultans, Vieda, historian of English madness, 293
Slater, Eliot, 4 , 242
Slavney, Phillip, description of Etienne Trillat's study "Perspectives on Hysteria," 335
Smallpox, 352
Smart, Christopher, 170 , 171 , 177
Smith, Adam, Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, 134
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, feminist historian, 302
Smollett, Tobias: Don Quixote, the fictional character, 172 ;
Launcelot Greaves, the fictional character, 172
Sneezing, as treatment for hysteria, 4 -5, 40 , 45 , 56 , 58 , 59 , 60 -61
Snow, C(harles). P(ercy). (1905- ), English novelist, "two cultures" dichotomy, 237
Society, 169 ;
Western European, 104 , 149 , 175
Sofer, Pressburg Rabbi Moses, 430
Sollier, Paul, case of the contracture of the hand in the male hysteric in the fourth volume of the Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpêtrière , 391 ;
image of the hand of the male hysteric from "Contracture Volontaire chez un Hystérique," 394
Somatism, 237 , 239 , 245
Sontag, Susan, xvi ;
Illness as Metaphor , 110
Soranus, gynecological theories of, 25 -28, 35 -42, 44 , 47 , 53 -55, 57 , 91 ;
Gynecology , 15 , 37 , 53
Sorcières , early twentieth-century French feminist journal, 331
Spain, 148
Speech disorders, 326
Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903), English philosopher, 295 -296;
article written for the Westminster Review , 295
Spencer, Johann, eighteenth-century theologian, 429
Spenser, Edmund, 98
Spinoza, Baruch, 1632-1677, Dutch philosopher, 410
Spirits, evil, 361
Spleen, the, 231 , 255 , 293
"Startle effect," 358
Steffens, Paul, twentieth-century Hamburg physician, 385
Steindler, A., essay on hysterical contracture, 392 ;
image of posed hysteric from "On Hysterical Contractures," 397
Stephen of Pisa, 55
Sterility, hysteria and, 291 -293;
neurasthenia, 295 -296
Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768), British author of Tristram Shandy , 163 , 170 , 173 , 243
van Stevenick, Lucas, medical student of Hermann Boerhaave, 168
Stevenson, Anne, her remarks to the controversy concerning the use of "hysterical" as a critical term for the poetry of Sylvia Plath, 334
Stigma and illness, 175 -178;
and gender, 176 -177
Stock, Johann Christoph, 168
Stone, Martin, early twentieth-century shell-shock scholar, 325
Strauss, H., "Erkrankungen durch Alkohol und Syphilis bei den Juden," chart representing the Jewish hysteric, 407 ;
study of the pathology of the Jews, 406 , 433
Stress, 228 -229, 242 -243, 246 , 295
Stuart England, 105
Surrealism, 312 -313
Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, the, 356
Sweat, great, 226
Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688-1772), Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian, 183 -185
Swift, Jonathan, 160 ,
Tale of a Tub , 152 , 170
Switzerland, hysteria in, 168
Sydenham, Dr. Thomas, xii , 13 , 93 -94, 98 , 102 -104, 106 , 109 -110, 116 , 124 , 137 -149, 151 -153, 155 , 157 , 162 , 167 -168, 170 , 173 -174, 177 , 180 -181, 185 , 232 , 245 , 258 , 293 ;
Epistolary Dissertation , 139 , 141 , 143
Symbolic, the, 332
Syphilis, 228 , 229 , 389 , 417 , 421 -423, 428 -435
Szasz, Thomas, 234 -235, 239 , 265 ;
The Myth of Mental Illness , 233
T
Tabes, 422
Talbot, Fox, use of photography in treatment of the mentally ill, 356
Tears (see also Blushing), 163
Teeth, grinding as symptom of hysteria, 15 , 19 , 23
Tetanus, 364 , 366 , 368 , 379
Testicles, the, 308
Thackeray, William, 409 ,
Codlingsby , 406
Theodorus Gaza, traductio nova edition of the Articella , 58 -59
Theology, 238 , 240 ;
Christian, 237
Theophanes Nonnos, medical compilations by, 46
Theophilus, on urines, 57
Therapists, High Victorian, 246
Theseus, 104
Third Republic, the, 231
Thorax, the, 241
Throat, the, 241
Thucydides (c. 460-400 B.C .), Greek historian of Athens, description of the "great plague" of Athens, 225
Tickner, Lisa, study of the British suffrage movement, 306
Tilt, Edward, Victorian physician, 286
Timaeus of Locri, 25
Times Literary Supplement , 334
Tissot, Samuel Auguste, Swiss "antimasturbation" doctor, 182 , 245 , 262
Tode, Johannes, 168
Trance, 23
Travel to seaside resorts, 164
Trillat, Etienne, 257 , 335 ;
Histoire de l'Hysterie (1986), vii , 5 , 9 -10, 29 , 41 -42, 291
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 313
Trota, twelfth-century female physician, Cum auctor , 56 ;
Ut de curtis , 56
Trumbach, Randolph, 136
Tryon, Thomas, mystic and vegetarian, Discourse of the Causes of Madness , 176
Tuberculosis, 228
Tudor-Stuart England. See England, Tudor-Stuart
Tuesday Clinic, clinic operated by Jean-Martin Charcot, 242 , 247 , 260
Tuesday lectures, the, 350 , 415
Tuke, Hack, 265
Tukes, the (William, Henry, and Samuel), asylum superintendents during the nineteenth century, 261
Turbayne, C. M., 25
Turner, William, 168
Tuskegee experiments, 433
U
Uffizi Gallery, Bacchic scene of "dying Bacchante," 372
United Kingdom, the, war hospitals for mental patients, 321
United States, the, 287 , 294 -297, 305 -306, 434
University polyclinic, the, 249
University of San Francisco, the, 331
Urban sprawl, in relation to gender arrangements, 154 -166
Uterus, the, 251 , 254 , 292 , 359 , 402 ;
uterine system, the, 252
V
Vagina, 251 , 254 ;
relationship to the circumcised penis of a Jewish man, 425
Van Deusen, E. H., 305
Van Swieten, Gerard, 262
"Vapours," 119 , 149 -150, 152 -153, 155 , 170 , 255 , 289 , 293
Vascular system, the, 252
Vassar College, 298
Veith, Ilza, medical historian of hysteria, 104 , 106 , 109 , 115 , 139 , 142 , 157 , 183 , 232 -233, 235 , 237 , 242 , 246 , 255 , 262 , 329 -330;
Can You Hear the Clapping of One Hand (1989), 331 ;
Hysteria: The History of a Disease , vii , xvii , 4 -5, 7 -8, 26 , 93 , 96 , 119 -121, 232 ;
Hysteria (1965), 328 -331
Vesalius, Andreas, 63 ;
De humani corporis fabrica (1543), 64
Vico, Giovanni Battista, xv
Victorians, the, 185
Vienna, Austria, 420 ,
during the time of Freud, 144 , 174 , 183 , 315 , 402 , 405 , 427
Vienna General Hospital, 323
Vienna Psychiatric Society, the, 314
Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, 405 -406
Vienna, University of, 404
Viennese Jewish community during the early nineteenth-century debate on the abolition of circumcision, 430
Viennese Society of Physicians, 402
Vindicianus, 48
Violence, 161
Virago, early twentieth-century English publishing company, 331
Virard, P., 168
Virgins, 123 , 135
Visibility of the hysteric. see Hysteric
Visionaries. See Camizards, French prophets, Blake, English lyric poets
W
Wack, Mary, 64 , 99 , 113
War fever, 226
War Neurosis, 321 -326
Warner, Francis, The Expression of Emotions in Men and Animals , 383
Warner-Jauregg, Professor Julius, report for the Austrian commission appointed to investigate the treatment of World War I war neurotics, 323
Weilder, Walter Baer, image showing eyes, and sight of the hysteric, 386 ;
work on hysterical blindness, "Some Ocular Manifestations of Hysteria," 384
Weir Mitchell rest cure, the, 323
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, the, 65
Western medical model before 1800, the, 92
Weyer, Johannes, Dutch physician, 112 , 14 -116, 122 -127, 149 , 232
WHAM, abortion rights group, 334
Wharton, Edith (Jones) (1862-1937), American novelist, 299
White, Andrew Dickson (1832-1918), study of conflict between science and theology, 374
White, Hayden, xiii
Whytt, Robert, Scottish physician, 179 -180, 183 -184, 262 ;
Observations on the nature, causes and cure of those disorders which have been commonly called nervous ,
hypochondriac, or hysteric, to which are pre-fixed some remarks on the sympathy of the nerves , 166 -167;
"Proteus and the chameleon," 176
Widows, 123 , 135
Wilde, Oscar, 292 , 346
Willis, Thomas (1621-1675), English physician and anatomist, authority on brain and nervous system, 104 , 124 , 138 , 140 -141, 143 , 145 ;
147 , 151 -152, 155 , 158 , 162 , 183 -184, 241 , 262 ;
Affectionum quae dicuntur & hypochondriacae pathologia . . . (1672), 140 ;
theory of sympathy, 147
Wilson, N. G., summary on Alexandrian medicine, 45
Wit, Restoration and Scriblerian, 160
Witchcraft, 96 -98, 100 , 104 , 121 , 127 , 132 , 148 , 329
Witches, 98 , 100 -101, 105 , 117 , 124 , 126 , 132 , 149 , 177 , 233 , 352 , 361 , 374 , 377 ;
the late medieval witch craze, 225 ;
witch-hunts, 265 , 287 , 329 ;
witch trials, 242 , 329 ;
witch's claw, the, 104 -105
Witches, the, early women's group, 331
Wittmann, Blanche, the "Queen of Hysterics," 229 , 242 , 309 -310, 345 -346
Womb, the, 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 18 , 19 , 27 , 28 , 36 , 38 , 117 , 119 , 130 -134, 157 , 181 , 232 , 266 , 356 , 404 ;
dry womb, 18 -19;
movement of, 12 , 14 , 17 , 24 , 25 , 27 , 29 , 30 , 32 , 38 -39, 42 , 46 , 48 , 50 -53, 55 , 64 ;
origin of all diseases, 30 ;
Plato's description of, 25 -28, 104 , 118 , 123 ;
suffocation of, see Hysterike pnix ; wandering, 25 -26, 42 , 49 , 54 , 116 , 118 , 121 , 125 , 140 , 335 , 402 , 404 ;
womb, as animal, 25 -26, 28 , 38 -39, 40 -41, 43 -44, 46 , 52 , 56 , 185 ;
womb as oven, as hearth, 31 -32
Women, hysteria and. See under Hysteria
Women's suffrage, in England, 326 ;
in the United States, 326
Woodruff, R. A., 4
Woolf, Virginia, Mrs. Dalloway , 247
Wordsworth, William (see also Gale, Susan), 132 , 153 ;
"The Idiot Boy," 177
World War I, 292 , 300 , 321 , 366 , 433
Wright, Dr. Almwroth, article "On Militant Hysteria," 320
X
X-ray medical analysis, 381 , 391
Y
Yiddish, 425 -426
Z
Zampieri, Domenichino (1581-1641), 368
Zetzel, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Emergency Medical Service psychiatrist during World War II, 330 ;
first analytic paper, "War Neurosis: A Clinical Contribution," 327
Zeviani, G. V., 168
Zilboorg, Gregory, medical historian, 231
Zionist , alleged bastard race originating from sexual selectivity, 434
Zoöphilist , English antivivisectionist journal, 311