Female hysteria   Since ancient times women considered to be
suffering from hysteria would sometimes undergo "pelvic massage"
— manual stimulation of the anterior wall of the vagina by the
doctor until the patient experienced "hysterical paroxysm". This
deep psycho-emotional release is today referred to as the
'g-spot' or 'female' orgasm (see article orgasm), qualitatively
different from ordinary genital (clitoral) orgasm.  Early
history  The history of hysteria can be traced to ancient times;
in ancient Greece it was described in the gynecological
treatises of the Hippocratic corpus, which date from the 5th and
4th centuries BCE and was recorded even earlier in Egyptian
papyri. Plato's dialogue Timaeus tells of the uterus wandering
throughout a woman’s body, strangling the victim as it reaches
the chest and causing disease. This theory is the source of the
name, which stems from the Greek word for uterus, hystera. The
idea of the wandering womb may be derived from observation of
prolapsed uteruses.  A promin