Vickipedia is a project by someone who obtained an 1888 encyclopedia, and is now transcribing individual entries online on a daily basis.
Today’s entry? Hysteria.
During the fit, the treatment to be adopted is to prevent the patient from injuring herself, to loosen her dress, and to admit an abundance of fresh cool air; to dash cold water upon the face and chest; and, if she can swallow, to administer a couple of ounces of the asafœtida mixture, or a drachm of the ammoniated tincture of valerian in a wine-glass of water.
After the paroxysm is over, the patient should have an active purge, and the bowels should be kept properly open by aloetic aperients; and the shower-bath, preparations of iron, and tonic treatment generally should be adopted, and all abnormal bodily and mental excitement, such as late parties in hot rooms, novel-reading, &c., carefully avoided.
Yeah, gotta watch out for that novel-reading. I usually have to bodily restrain Margie after she’s been doing that … for her own good, mind you …