We therefore assume that it is either a text from the Roman physician Galen, or an unknown commentary on his work... describing a bizarre theory on hysteria by the Greco-Roman physician Galen (A.D. 130 –210)... that hysteria was caused by a 'wandering womb.' Instead, he thought women became hysterical, and could suffer from 'hysterical suffocation,' or apnea, when they stopped having intercourse.
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"But it is best of all to look at the human skeleton with your own eyes. This is very easy in Alexandria, so that the physicians of that area instruct their pupils with the aid of autopsy."
"After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster."
"The mind's inclination follows the body's temperature."
"The best physician is also a philosopher."
"The great horde of physicians are always servile imitators, who can neither perceive nor correct the faults of their system, and are always ready to growl at and even to worry the ingenious person tha…"
Describing his theory of 'hysterical suffocation,' a now-discredited and quite disturbing medical explanation for female ailments linked to sexual activity.
Date: 2nd century CE (from his writings, discovered in a papyrus)
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