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The Female Hysteria Douche Remedy (c. 1860)

Posted by Amanda Hess on Aug. 11, 2009 at 5:03 pm

In case you were wondering what happened to those crazy bitches picked up for "female hysteria" prior to 1900: it's pictured.

"illustration of French pelvic douche device" via Wikipedia Commons.

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Comments

  1. jules August 12th, 2009
    2:35 pm
    #1

    According to this picture, this device is great if you want to power wash your lower abs?

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