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The Charlotte News, North Carolina, May 9, 1921
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The Charlotte News, North Carolina, May 9, 1921
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 11, 1896
The Wilkes-Barre Record, Pennsylvania, October 4, 1941
..a sinister weed of madness, murder and hallucinations, delusions and false notions..
..the crazed used develops an uncontrollable lust to kill…
..he may see huge slimy snakes crawling though small sidewalk crevices and keyholes..
..the addict makes false charges against innocent persons, often killing them in a most brutal manner..
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, August 1, 1909
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, August 1, 1909
Strange manifestations of hysteria wherein women believe self-perpetrated crimes committed by others.
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The Star-Democrat, Easton, Maryland, December 19, 1941
Medical Hints, Designed for the Use of Clergymen, and Others, in Places Where Professional Advice Cannot Be Immediately Procured, 1820
This disease is almost confined to females of an irritable nervous system, the single more than the married, from the age of fifteen, to thirty-five or forty.
They are readily excited in those who are subject to the, by passions of the mind, and sometimes they come on from imitation and sympathy.
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The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies, 1853
It is more feminine, on witnessing such a sight, to utter an involuntary scream than a shout of laughter.
The Married Woman’s Medical Companion, 1847
While on your period:
No fruits or vegetables.
No fermented liquor.
No wet feet.
No violent passions of the mind.
No dancing.
The Plain Speaker, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1901
Portland, Oregon, September 14, 1913