images in historical attitudes of female patients, hysterical patients that originated from the word, histra, meaning womb, once believed it was caused by the womb wondering through the body. victoria attributed this to app imambulance of sexual organs and the brain. problems we regard today as associated with hormonal fluxuations were prominent in the diagnosis of hysteria. this belief reaches back much further in history. as we know, medieval perceptions of women painted them as weaker versions of men and monthly cycles were evidence they were leaky vessels, inferior to men physically and emotionally. this association between hormones and character is one that follows women well past medieval or premod earn times. the doubt about her symptoms chipped at away at her confidence, combined with her age in the accompanied assumption that young people are not supposed to be sick, exacerbated the underlying problems. by the time she was in college, which is when she had is now now her true crones flair, she is experienced a worsening of the reflux disease. whenever i saw the university health cen