g., Warman, _Der
Frauenarzt_, August, 1895). Again, the rubbing of fragrant ointments into
the sexual regions is but a form of that massage which is one of the
modern methods of treating the sexual disorders of women.
[257] _Les Demoniaques dans l'Art_, 1887; _Les Malades et les Difformes
dans l'Art_, 1889.
[258] Glafira Abricosoff, of Moscow, in her Paris thesis, _L'Hysterie aux
xvii et xviii siecles_, 1897, presents a summary of the various views held
at this time; as also Gilles de la Tourette, _Traite de l'Hysterie_, vol.
i, Chapter I.
[259] _Edinburgh Medical Journal_, June, 1883, p. 1123, and _Mental
Diseases_, 1887, p. 488.
[260] Hegar, _Zusammenhang der Geschlechtskrankheiten mit nervoesen
Leiden_, Stuttgart, 1885. (Hegar, however, went much further than this,
and was largely responsible for the surgical treatment of hysteria now
generally recognized as worse than futile.) Balls-Headley, "Etiology of
Nervous Diseases of the Female Genital Organs," Allbutt and Playfair,
_System of Gynecology_, 1896, p. 141.
[261] Lombroso and Ferrero, _La Donna Delinquente_, 1893, pp. 613-14.
[262] Charcot and Marie, article on "Hysteria," Tuke's _Dictionary of
Psychological Medicine_.
[263] Axenfeld and Huchard, _Traite des Nevroses_, 1883, pp. 1092-94.
Icard (_La Femme pendant la Periode Menstruelle_, pp. 120-21) has also
referred to recorded cases of hysteria in animals (Coste's and Peter's
cases), as has Gilles de la Tourette (op.
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