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A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière (1887), by André Brouillet. (Wikimedia Commons)

The 'Queen of Hysterics' and 19th-Century Theatrical Hysteria

Meet Blanche Wittmann, the 'queen of hysterics' at Charcot's Salpêtrière Hospital, where medical demonstrations became theatrical spectacles.