The Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was the first to use the word hysteria, which derives from the Greek word hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that affected only women. The Father of Medicine developed the theory of the movement of the uterus inside the female body—the so-called “wandering womb”—in the 5th century BCE.

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