Word: hysterias
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...having a stolen book on witches. Ann gets even with Tituba by pretending to be bewitched. Then Ann's mother testifies that Tituba bewitched her too. Soon the folk begin to find the charge of witchcraft handy for paying off grudges. Once roaring on its way, the hysteria veers round to Barbara when she temerously defends an accused person, gains substantiation when Tim Clarke, her cousin, testifies that when he saw her with somebody she said she was with "no man," a statement which the listeners take to mean that she was with Beelzebub. After that only Roger...
...spent $20.000. She hoped to sell it to a U. S. zoo for $15,000. But just as she was about to take it aboard the U. S.-bound Empress of Russia, Chinese customs officials seized it on the grounds that she had obtained no export permit. In near-hysteria Mrs. Harkness spent the night in the Shanghai customs house, nursing her precious cub from a bottle while the Empress of Russia sailed without her. After friends had helped her post a large cash bond, customs officials permitted Mrs. Harkness to take the baby giant to her hotel, suggested payment...
Over-alert social critics are apt to notice leftist leanings in the play, such as a Communist's being sent to death by mob hysteria, and a policeman's bullying the poor. These suggestions, if not completely illusory, are at best irrelevant and insignificant...
...Protested she: "I didn't know anything about this World, and I don't want to know anything about it. I want to live alone, to be let alone, and to live in darkness." Said Señor Silva, confirming her story: "She has been suffering an hysteria of sadness. ... I am doing a charitable...
...19th Century. Jean Martin Charcot became professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Paris, started a neurological clinic at the old Salpetriere (public hospital for the aged and insane) which wielded a potent influence in medicine and psychiatry. Charcot pooh-poohed the antique physiological theories of hysteria, probed the psychological sources through hypnotism. He differentiated the manifestations of locomotor ataxia, published researches on many another malady from gout to chronic pneumonia, some of which bear his name. At the height of his fame a young physician named Sigmund Freud went to study with him, and under his tutelage...