Citations:hysteriæ

Noun: plural of hysteria

 * 1838, Joseph Comstock, The Tongue of Time, and Star of the States, Chapter IV., page #213:
 * As to Margaret Rule’s not eating and yet not emaciating, we know that girls will long have hysteriæ, and eat very little, with‐out apparently falling away.
 * 1867, Southern Journal of the Medical Sciences, Volume II., page #235:
 * I have recently seen a lady who, to combat certain nervous manifestations, poisoned herself daily, by introducing into the vagina, in contact with the granular neck, an ointment of belladonna ; and as the nervous accidents consequent on the belladonna aggravated the state of the patient, the troubles were all laid to hysteriæ ; but the trouble of vision, accompanied by dilatation of the pupil, increased after each application of belladonna, and this symptom was the cause of the discovery of all the strange phenomena which the young woman experienced.
 * 1880, Charles Richet in The Popular Science Monthly, Volume XVII., page #88:
 * Just as we may suffer a burn that is so superficial that we can hardly feel it, while there are other burns so deep and extended that they lead to death ; just as there are light fevers and also fevers that are speedily mortal—so there are light hysteriæ, almost imperceptible, constituting a disposition of the organization rather than a disease, and besides them there are grave hysteriæ, so grave that they are confounded with insanity, with general paralysis, and with epilepsy.