Catonné J P
Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Ann Med Psychol (Paris). 1992 Dec;150(10):705-19.
The Greek physicians of the fourth century B.C. painstakingly described a number of symptoms that they thought were caused by migrations of a restless uterus, said "wandering womb". According to this concept, we can use the term "hysteria", despite the fact that the noun itself never appears in any of the Hippocratic texts. We can determine its origin as being in ancient Egypt from the medical writings of the Egyptian papyri. In the same way, the therapy is mainly of Egyptian origin, using a combination of recipes to make the moving womb return to its proper place in the body cavity. However, we can also identify the rationality of the Greeks, in particular as regards mechanical physiopathology. Hippocratic authors are closely connected with presocratical physics, and manifest a distinct break with magic and religion. Furthermore, they claim that hysteria may result from prolonged sexual continence, an opinion which was to influence medical history for over two thousand years.
公元前4世纪的希腊医生苦心描述了一些他们认为是由不安分的子宫迁移所致的症状，即所谓的“游走性子宫”。根据这一概念，我们可以使用“癔症”这个术语，尽管该名词本身从未出现在任何希波克拉底文献中。我们可以从埃及纸莎草纸的医学著作中确定其起源于古埃及。同样，这种疗法主要源自埃及，采用多种配方组合以使移动的子宫回到体腔内的正常位置。然而，我们也能看出希腊人的理性，特别是在机械生理病理学方面。希波克拉底学派的作者与前苏格拉底物理学紧密相连，并与魔法和宗教明显决裂。此外，他们声称癔症可能源于长期禁欲，这一观点在两千多年的医学史上产生了影响。
