| 词条 | Vapours (disease) |
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In archaic usage, the vapours (or vapors) is a reference to certain mental or physical states,[1] such as hysteria, mania, clinical depression, bipolar disorder, lightheadedness, fainting, flush, withdrawal syndrome, mood swings, or PMS, where a sufferer lost mental focus. Ascribed primarily to women and thought to be caused by internal emanations (vapours) from the womb, it was related to the concept of female hysteria. The word "vapours" was subsequently used to describe a depressed or hysterical nervous condition.[2] Over 4000 years of history, this disease was considered from two perspectives: scientific and demonological. It was cured with herbs, sex or sexual abstinence, punished and purified with fire for its association with sorcery and finally, clinically studied as a disease and treated with innovative therapies. However, even at the end of 19th century, scientific innovation had still not reached some places, where the only known therapies were those proposed by Galen. The evolution of these diseases seems to be a factor linked with social “westernization”, and examining under what conditions the symptoms first became common in different societies became a priority for recent studies over risk factor[3]. Today, the phrase "a case of the vapors" is most often used either melodramatically or for comedic effect. Victorian eraIn the Victorian era, a variety of conditions which affected women were referred to as "a case of the vapours". Ladies' tight corsets could squeeze their internal organs, including the lungs, and could restrict breathing causing the wearer to feel faint and suffer "the vapours". A Treatise of Vapours or Hysterick Fits[4], by John Purcell, published in 1707, describes the various conditions described as "vapours", with treatments. A description of someone having "a case of the vapours" was sometimes used for a person in a state of emotional agitation.[5] See also
References1. ^{{cite web| url= http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vapors+?s=t|title= Vapors|publisher=Dictionary.com|accessdate=2012-06-30}} 2. ^{{cite web| url= http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/vapors|title= Vapors|publisher=MerriamWebster Medical Dictionary|accessdate=2012-06-30}} 3. ^{{cite journal|last1=Tasca|first1=Cecilia|date=October 19, 2012|title=Women And Hysteria In The History Of Mental Health|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480686/|journal=Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health|volume=8|page=110-119|pages=|doi=10.2174/1745017901208010110|pmid=23115576|accessdate=December 1, 2018|via=}} 4. ^A Treatise of Vapours or Hysterick Fits 5. ^{{cite book|author1=Jonathan Edwards|author2=John Angell James|author3=William Patton (D.D.)|title=Edwards on Revivals; containing a Faithful Narrative ... Also, Thoughts on the revival of religion ... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phxhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA41&dq=vapours+emotional+agitation|year=1839|page=41}} External links
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