Relief for hysteria

So, I don't know why but I'm currently fascinated by early sex toy, especially mechanical and convoluted machines. Here, I found the first vibrator.

Developed by an American physician, George Taylor M.D., it was a large, cumbersome, steam-powered apparatus. Taylor recommended it for treatment of an illness known at the time as "female hysteria." Hysteria comes to us from Greek meaning "suffering uterus;" involved anxiety, irritability, sexual fantasies, "pelvic heaviness" and "excessive" vaginal lubrication, or in other words sexual arousal. However, since it was the Victorian era, women were not considered to be at all sexual and it was therefore it was dismissed as a disease. Physicians treated hysteria by massaging sufferers' vulvas until they experienced dramatic relief through "paroxysm". Has anyone read "The Road to Wellville" by T.C. Boyle?

Unfortunately, hysteria was a recurrent condition and repeated treatment was often necessary. Taylor touted his steam-driven massage device as speeding up treatment while reducing physician fatigue.