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I thought I caught the stuffy odor of the historical novelist who has fallen in love with her own research and feels the need to impart all those interesting bits of information about hysteria and hysterogenic points and volta-faradaic apparatus, whether the story demands them or not.

She was able to demonstrate "hysterogenic zones": areas on the body thought to trigger hysterical fits.

For his part, Charcot, the author notes, “confronted the chaos of the hysterical female body” and discovered “hysterogenic zones” privileging the ovaries and breasts that, when stimulated, either provoked or halted hysterical symptoms.

Mr. Lloyd remains original, rapid, hysterogenic.

No doubt Charcot determines very well the phases of the attack, notes the nonsensical and passional attitudes, the contortionistic movements; he discovers hysterogenic zones and can, by skilfully manipulating the ovaries, arrest or accelerate the crises, but as for foreseeing them and learning the sources and the motives and curing them, that's another thing.