ed. Sander Gilman. 1993. Although the diagnosis of hysteria in both women and men has virtually disappeared in our time, in practice its symptoms have been transformed into the medically sanctioned ‘conversion syndrome’ and then (mysteriously and perplexingly) have gone underground. It is easy to forget that the ancient threat of an invasive and irrepressible […]

By P.C.Remondino, M.D. – Philadelphia 1891. Jahn, in speaking of the people by whom the early Hebrews were surrounded, mentions their idolatrous practices, and that their peculiar forms of Pagan worship were accompanied by indulgence in fornication, lascivious songs, and unnatural lust. Others of their neighbors worshiped the “hairy he-goat,” with which they also practiced […]