O heart of my mother,
O heart of my mother,
O heart of my transformations:

Do not rise up against me as a witness,
Do not oppose me in the tribunal,
Do not be hostile to me before the guardian of the scales

I think there has to be a case made for the institutionalisation of hysteria as a product of the Enlightenment’s recurring dichotomy between rational and responsible middle-class white civilised man vs emotional and unstable woman/savage/child/working-class/anyone else. ‘Green sickness’ and pre-Enlightenment perception of women’s health centres around physical ailments, around the time hysteria kicks off it all becomes about delicate nervous systems and the like.

Just my vague ideas anyway…