The Early History of Wandering Wombs Its most notable appearances were in the writings of Hippocrates in his Hippocratic Corpus. In his earliest writings, hysteria was a disease of the womb, treatable with massage and exercise. It was generally believed that the uterus could move within and throughout the body, depending on the health of the woman.
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