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Hysteria Sells!

April 1, 2020

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Julie R. Neidlinger
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For all the ladies who get hysterical online, I sure wish you wouldn’t.1

Back in the day, when the medical community didn’t wash their hands and thought bleeding the bad blood out of a person was a swell idea, female hysteria was an actual medical diagnosis.

Yet again, a win …

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