Doctors recommended marriage, frequent horseback rides, or getting fingerblasted by a midwife to cure the ailment, according to Maines. By the Victori...n era, the cause of hysteria was thought to be modern society and all its demands on fragile womanhood. "In the Victorian period, doctors attributed hysteria to the dangerous behaviors of intellectual women," writes Greer Theus of Washington and Lee University. All these foot-powered sewing machines and increased literacy rates were tearing. "As the numbness wore off I could start to feel a little pain appearthroughout my body. She asked me to raise my arms high in the air. Ijust looked at her in amazement and didn't understand how all thiscould have taken place so quickly."Heather slut, I want you to stand and place your hands high over yourhead in the air."As if a tidal wave had just consumed me I did as I was instructed andshe began to place a corset around me."I know these are a little sore so the corset will help support. Better that then having her believe I’m some kind of possessive freak marking my territory, he thought. ———————————————– Glowing a fiery orange and casting the hotel’s scattered palms in shadow, the sun set on Playana del Sol, and as well as their vacation in a state half a nation away from home. It was to be their last evening here, and if Jahn was totally wrong about what they felt for him, perhaps the last night he would share with them at all. Let it not be so, the thought echoed in his. Unfortunately her fears may be well founded as she seems to have gone missing as well. She had been last seen here working in Heinrich's laboratory." Heinrich?" asked the General.Maria gestured at the sad faced, handsome blond man standing nearby with pistol in hand. "Heinrich Foxx, the Colonel's son. He's shook up as you can imagine. His father threatened his life as well, and ... finding his father to be quite mad after being such a model for him..." I'm sorry son," the General nodded..