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Treating Hysteria
Jamie Klaire
ASIN: B00NF1ONJA
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 23

Authors get their ideas from some pretty strange places. I'd read somewhere that the 'personal massager' was the fifth thing invented after electricity came along. Shows you were it was on the list of priorities: sewing machine, fan, tea kettle, toaster and then woohoo! Before both the vacuum and the electric iron. And it was invented as a labor-saving device, since doctors were getting hand cramps and such, from manually 'treating' women for 'hysteria.' Yes, it seems hand jobs were part of the 1900's doctor's job description. Doctors would use vegetable oil to massage women's (ahem), after which they'd experience sudden and dramatic relief from 'hysteria.' Yeah, I bet!This short is this author's vision of how one such home visit might have gone down. Enjoy!Approx. word count 3,700+ words (Not including supplementary material)Included at the end of this short is a bonus sample of ...
Amazon Rating:
4.5 stars from 11 ratings