id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4819 Hysteria - Wikipedia .html text/html 2749 464 55 However, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries activists and scholars worked to change the perception of hysteria back to a medical condition.[3] Particularly, French physician Charles Lepois insisted that hysteria was a malady of the brain.[7] In addition, in 1697, English physician Thomas Sydenham theorized that hysteria was an emotional condition, instead of a physical condition.[3] Many physicians followed Lepois and Sydenham's lead and hysteria became disassociated with the soul and the womb.[7] During this time period science started to focalize hysteria in the central nervous system.[7] As doctors developed a greater understanding of the human nervous system, the neurological model of hysteria was created, which further propelled the conception of hysteria as a mental disorder.[7] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4819.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4819.txt