Did the Hysterectomy (uterectomy) work for Hysteria? Wow Hysteria was a valid "mental disease" up till 1980!!

 Yes, historically, hysterectomy, the surgical removal of the uterus, was sometimes used as a treatment for "hysteria," a now-discredited diagnosis that was primarily applied to women. This practice stemmed from the belief that the uterus, or "hystera" in Greek, was the source of various physical and psychological ailments in women.

 The uterus primarily produces prostaglandins, cytokines, peptide hormones, and growth factors. While the ovaries are the main source of estrogen and progesterone, the uterus also plays a role in hormone production, particularly during pregnancy.

 The diagnosis of "hysteria" was eventually removed from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980.

 https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/health-and-families/hysterectomy-surgery-name-change-history-b2775828.html

Wow five days ago! I ask a question and it's very timely!

They believed the womb (uterus) moved around the body looking for sperm and disrupted other organs.

Because the uterus was blamed for hysteria, the treatment was to remove it. This procedure was called a hysterectomy. Sadly, many women had their healthy uterus unnecessarily removed and most died.

The word “hysteria” originally came from the ancient Greek word for uterus, “hystera”. But the modern Greek word for uterus is “mitra”, which is where words such as “endometrium” come from.

Hysteria was only removed as an official medical diagnosis in 1980. It was finally recognised that it does not exist and is sexist.

“Hysterectomy” should also be removed from medical terminology because it continues to link the uterus to hysteria....

one in five people thought hysterectomy meant removal of the ovaries, not the uterus.

It’s true that some hysterectomies for cancer do also remove the ovaries. A hysterectomy or partial hysterectomy is the removal of only the uterus, a total hysterectomy removes the uterus and cervix, while a radical hysterectomy usually removes the uterus, cervix, uterine tubes and ovaries....

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 Removing the link to hysteria and renaming hysterectomy to uterectomy would be a simple but symbolic change.

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 sexual deprivation was often the cause of female hysteria. To illustrate this, he presented the case study of a nun affected by hysteria, who became cured only when a well-wishing barber took it upon himself to pleasure her.

 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/the-controversy-of-female-hysteria#Female-hysteria-in-the-18th-century

Another means of “treating” instances of hysteria was through mesmerism, an alleged psychosomatic therapy popularized by Franz Anton Mesmer, a German doctor who was active in 18th-century Europe.

Mesmer believed that living beings were influenced by magnetism, an invisible current that ran through animals and humans, and whose imbalances or fluctuations could lead to health disruptions.

Mesmer alleged that he could act on this magnetic undercurrent and cure humans of various maladies, including hysteria......

  in the late 19th century, doctors would often treat female patients’ hysteria symptoms by manually stimulating their genitalia. According to her, the vibrator eventually emerged as a device that would save physicians some effort when treating their patients.

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The first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I) of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) — published in 1952 — did not list hysteria as a mental health condition.

Yet it reappeared in the DSM-II in 1968, before the APA dropped it again in the DSM-III, in 1980...........

  pathologize “everything that men found mysterious or unmanageable in women.”

Supreme Court just officially instituted the U.S. as a Fascist Regime: No constitutional rights unless you file a lawsuit

 By one accounting, the disruption of overseas food and drug shipments from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), including life-saving HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria treatments, has already caused nearly 350,000 deaths (and they continue at an estimated rate of 103 per hour).

https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=title&order=asc 

 Contributions from oil and gas political action committees (PACs) to Republicans were more than five times greater than those to Democrats in the last election cycle. And that doesn’t include funds from individual donors connected to the fossil-fuel industry or various forms of “educational” soft money, let alone “dark money” channeled through issue-oriented nonprofits that don’t report their sources. There can be no question that total expenditures by fossil-fuel interests in the 2024 election far exceeded that sector’s $219 million in traceable investments.

https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/industry-detail/E01/2024 

 https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/supreme-court-hands-trump-and-democracy-foes-key-victories/?emci=c0021804-ab53-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&emdi=af07c474-ad53-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&ceid=6880951

“The Court’s decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law,” Justice Jackson declared in her dissent. She said the Trump administration’s “bid to vanquish so-called universal injunctions is, at bottom, a request for this Court’s permission to engage in unlawful activity.” 

the ruling renders constitutional guarantees “meaningless.”

“With the stroke of a pen. The president has made a solemn mockery of our Constitution,” Sotomayor wrote. “The court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution.” She declared that “No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” She said the ruling robs the lower courts of their power to protect people even in the face of plainly unlawful policies. 

 A Lawless Free Zone.....a mad scramble

People born in the U.S. are no longer citizens.... unless they are in states that are part of class action lawsuits.... Despite the 14th Amendment's clear guarantee of citizenship to anyone born in this country, Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship can now move forward in much of the country. 

Representative Pramila Jayapal said in response to the ruling, "We will have a patchwork of rulings that means one person's constitutional rights may be protected, while another's are not — depending on their zip code."

The ACLU similarly warns that the decision "puts thousands of U.S.-born children at risk of being denied their constitutional rights based on the citizenship status of their parents."

This is even more broadly dangerous than many people realize.

The Court just told Trump he can move forward with nearly any executive order — cutting funds to sanctuary cities, ending refugee resettlement, blocking access to healthcare for transgender Americans — and the courts can't step in unless you're one of the few who sues. 

One ruling at a time. One person at a time. The highest court in the land gave Trump permission to be an authoritarian.

  this court has handed a power to the current administration that was never available to any prior president in history.

 A new class action just filed for Citizen Birthrights of the Constitution 

 https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/groups-file-nationwide-class-action-lawsuit-over-trump-birthright-citizenship-order

Birthright citizenship is the principle that every baby born in the United States is a U.S. citizen. The Constitution’s 14th Amendment guarantees the citizenship of all children born in the United States (with the extremely narrow exception of children of foreign diplomats) regardless of race, color, or ancestry. Specifically, it states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”

Today’s lawsuit charges the Trump administration with flouting the Constitution, congressional intent, and longstanding Supreme Court precedent, and it is national in scope.

“Every court to have looked at this cruel order agrees that it is unconstitutional,” said Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project and lead attorney in this case. “The Supreme Court’s decision did not remotely suggest otherwise, and we are fighting to make sure President Trump cannot trample on the citizenship rights of a single child.”

Farming started out as Matrifocal gardening: DNA evidence now proves it

 A pair of studies now present an analysis of stable isotopes and skeletal remains from 395 ancient individuals who lived 8000 to 5800 BCE, from whom DNA from 131 individuals could be sequenced (see the Perspective by Arbuckle). Yüncü et al. found that kinship patterns changed over time in this settlement, but individuals from the same houses or nearby ones were primarily related through the maternal line.

 I knew this was true from my visit to the most traditional Berber village in Morocco - I knew it was like traveling back in time thousands of years. Humanure composting was used to grow food in the desert. The women did all the farming and the women made all the clothing. I knew this was the original farming as it had spread out of West Asia. 

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-female-centered-society-thrived-9-000-years-ago-in-proto-city-in-turkey 

 "With Çatalhöyük, we now have the oldest genetically-inferred social organisation pattern in food-producing societies," study co-author Mehmet Somel, an evolutionary geneticist at Middle East Technical University in Turkey, told Live Science in an email. "Which turns out to be female-centered."

 https://bio.metu.edu.tr/en/faculty/mehmet-somel

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr2915 

Flores-Blanco, L., Hall, M., Hinostroza, L., Eerkens, J., Aldenderfer, M., & Haas, R. (2025). Altiplano agricultural origins was a process of economic resilience, not hardship: Isotope chemistry, zooarchaeology, and archaeobotany in the Titicaca Basin, 5.5-3.0 ka. PloS One, 20(6), e0325626. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0325626

The study doesn’t just rewrite the history of agriculture in one part of the world. It contributes to a growing global reevaluation of how farming began.

Across regions, new data are pushing back against older models of agricultural origins rooted in crisis. In coastal East Asia, early cultivation coincided with stable foraging. In parts of North America, maize spread slowly through interwoven economies of foraging and farming.

The story from the Andes reinforces the idea that people didn’t adopt agriculture because they had to. They adopted it because it worked—and because they could.

"This was not a revolution," Flores-Blanco emphasized. "It was an adaptation, built on knowledge, flexibility, and choice."

The Right to Privacy: An overlapping right among the Bill of Rights

 https://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/rightofprivacy.html

 as the privacy of beliefs (1st Amendment), privacy of the home against demands that it be used to house soldiers (3rd Amendment), privacy of the person and possessions as against unreasonable searches (4th Amendment), and the 5th Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination, which provides protection for the privacy of personal information.  In addition, the Ninth Amendment states that the "enumeration of certain rights" in the Bill of Rights "shall not be construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people."  The meaning of the Ninth Amendment is elusive, but some persons (including Justice Goldberg in his Griswold concurrence) have interpreted the Ninth Amendment as justification for broadly reading the Bill of Rights to protect privacy in ways not specifically provided in the first eight amendments.

The question of whether the Constitution protects privacy in ways not expressly provided in the Bill of Rights is controversial.  Many originalists, including most famously Judge Robert Bork in his ill-fated Supreme Court confirmation hearings, have argued that no such general right of privacy exists.  The Supreme Court, however, beginning as early as 1923 and continuing through its recent decisions, has broadly read the "liberty" guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment to guarantee a fairly broad right of privacy that has come to encompass decisions about child rearing, procreation, marriage, and termination of medical treatment.  Polls show most  Americans support this broader reading of the Constitution.

The Supreme Court, in two decisions in the 1920s, read the Fourteenth Amendment's liberty clause to prohibit states from interfering with the private decisions of educators and parents to shape the education of children.

 

 

Cryo-Electron of HIV virus

 https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)01421-1?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

  Here, we combined super-resolution and correlative microscopy with cryoelectron tomography and molecular simulations to study the nuclear entry of HIV-1 capsids in primary human macrophages.

 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12162

 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35123651/

HIV-1 Env mediates viral entry into host cells and is the sole target for neutralizing antibodies. However, Env structure and organization in its native virion context has eluded detailed characterization. Here, we used cryo-electron tomography to analyze Env in mature and immature HIV-1 particles. Immature particles showed distinct Env positioning relative to the underlying Gag lattice, providing insights into long-standing questions about Env incorporation. A 9.1-Å sub-tomogram-averaged reconstruction of virion-bound Env in conjunction with structural mass spectrometry revealed unexpected features, including a variable central core of the gp41 subunit, heterogeneous glycosylation between protomers, and a flexible stalk that allows Env tilting and variable exposure of neutralizing epitopes. Together, our results provide an integrative understanding of HIV assembly and structural variation in Env antigen presentation. 

video 

Keywords: Gag-Env interaction; HIV Env glycoprotein; HIV assembly; broadly neutralizing antibody; cryo-electron microscopy; cryo-electron tomography; hydrogen/deuterium-exchange mass spectrometry; sub-tomogram averaging; vaccine design; virus structure.

A podcast/blog: my Palatine protestant Switzer or Schweitzer ancestors trip to Ireland, Castle Matrix!

  The war (1618-1648) resulted in the deaths of over half of the Palatine population. The war was largely, especially in the beginning, a religious war between Catholics and Protestants.

The Lutheran Church at Bad Durkheim, recorded their marriage: On the 22nd of January, 1650, Hans Jacob Schweitzer, of Germany and lead hand at Bad Durkhelm was married to Eva, the endowed, legitimate daughter of the Magistrate.

 Johann Jacob Schweitzer was born in the Palatinate in western Germany. In 1650 he married Eva Renner who died childless in 1657. In 1658 he married Elesabeth Kesselring and they were the parents of four boys. In 1709 two of their sons immigrated to Ireland. While most of their descendants remained in Ireland, some immigrated to Canada between 1820-1860. Descendants live in Ontario and other parts of Canada, as well as the United States, New Zealand, Ireland and other parts of the world.

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I have never liked being cold! I have been stranded in three blizzards and several times the temperatures have been recorded in the -40’s, but never have I experienced the cold snap when temperatures plummeted across Europe and stayed below freezing for months. When dawn broke on the feast of Epiphany January 6, 1709 the European continent would not warm up for three months. Everything turned to ice! The sea froze, and trees exploded when the sap froze inside them. The native oaks and ash in the mighty forests succumbed and birds on the wing fell out of the sky. The grape vines tended by Christopher withered and died. There was no way for Christopher, my 8th great grandfather to make a living after this as it would be years before new grape vines would be mature enough to make fruit for the wine.

Johann Christopher Schwertzer was 23 years old. He shivered uncontrollably seated beside a roaring fire by his father’s hearth. Encased in his bearskin and hungry, even an axe couldn’t break the frozen bread. Out in the barn, his older brother, Michael, had found the milk cow, also frozen to death. The two brothers had been born at Assenheim, Germany, four years apart, 1681 and 1685.

The Palatinate of Germany was one of the states of the old Holy Roman Empire, situated along the Rhine River. Louis XIV of France built lavish castles coming from funds levied on the farmers. The burden on the Schweitzer family was severe. Wars had had been fought for years. Foraging armies had reduced the food supply and they were on the verge of starvation. The final crushing blow was the severe winter of 1709.

A dismal future waited for them when Queen Anne of England sent agents distributing pamphlets. In an effort to populate the America Colonies, she promised passage to America. Christopher and his brother Michael were amongst a mass exodus of over 13,000 individuals leaving Germany in search of a better life.

England was overwhelmed. They had to stop and turn back some, but the brothers arrived and were put in a tent city, outside London called Blackhearth in a Palatine refugee camp. Over 300 years ago, this great grandfather of mine was listed there as a husbandman (herdsman) and vinedresser. The brothers did not make it to America, the English didn’t have enough resources. Luckily, Sir Thomas Southwell of Castle Matrix, near Rathekeal, Ireland used his personal wealth and sponsored the first of ten families. He rented to each 200 acres for 50 years. In 1709 Christopher built an ancestral home, still standing and restored today by family, on the lane to the Castle Matrix.

 Castle Matrix with its distinctive turrets and winding stone staircases had been built as a fortress in 1420. In early 1600, the castle was granted to the Southwell family. Sir Thomas Southwell was a key figure bringing the refugees to Ireland. They did not live in the castle but settled on his estate at Rathkeale, near Limerick, Ireland. Castlematrix (one word) was the town. Katherine would learn the castle’s history. The Castle was owned by the 8th Earl of Desmond in 1487. He was so unpopular with his servants, one murdered him. His brother became the 9th Earl. He avenged his brother’s death by executing every servant. During the rebellions and wars the Irish seized and captured the Castle Matrix in 1641. Then Cromwell’s forces took it back in 1651. The Southwell family lived in it and it was described as 9 bedrooms, water closets, a dining and a drawing room and a library, with circular stairways. Lady Southwell had been a lady-in-waiting to the Queen and her husband, Sir Thomas had been favored with a large land grant near Castle Matrix. Interested in the linen industry he asked that mostly weavers and farmers be sent to him. His wife set up an industry for their wives. There are remains of the weaving shed and millrace outside the castle wall.

My mom visited Castle Matrix and she was treated like a long lost relative - there is a Switzer house there still standing. 

 Before the Palatines were sent to Ireland, the English authorities
had returned to the Palatinate all those who preferred
to remain Roman Catholic.
Necessarily, all the Irish Palatines were Protestants.
But they had no German preacher with them, and thier inability to understand English kept them from attending the Anglican Church,
which was located at Rathkeale, near their settlements.
Wesley says, "They were become eminent for drunkenness
cursing, swearing and an utter neglect of religion."
After 1749, there was frequent Methodist preaching in all the settlements,
and by 1760, Wesley reports, there was no swearing, drunkenness
sabbath breaking or liquer houses in any of them.
Such was the influence of Methodism.
Court Mattress seems to have accepted Methodism
more readily than the other villages,
for it was the first to erect a chapel.

John Wesley (1703-1791) himself preached to the Limerick palatines and they became Wesley’s poster children for the benefits of the true religion. Barbara Ruckle Heck was an Irish Palatine early immigrant to the U.S. who came to Ontario as a United Empire Loyalist. She became known as the mother of North American Methodism.

I once asked my mother about the difference between Catholics and Protestants. In what I now realize was a classic Wesleyan Methodist response she said: “Well dear, the Catholics put graven images and priests between themselves and God, but we don’t.” Case closed!

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The Irish Palatines of Limerick were often at odds with their surrounding Catholic neighbours. The Palatines sometimes acted as debt collectors for English landlords, were active in the yeomanry militia, and paid lower than market rate rents for their land. A number of Palatines were murdered by Catholic terror-groups such as the Whiteboys.

It is then not surprising that many of the Palatines were active members of the Orange Lodge in Canada. Catholics of course were not fond of Orangemen.

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  William Wesley Lewis (1867-1960), was Ida’s father-in-law, my other maternal great-grandfather (see photograph below). In 1888, he left Crediton, Ontario, and homesteaded in the Crandall area. He built a sod house and planted potatoes in his roof. William was a “water witch” and used his occult powers to help his neighbours find suitable locations to dig their wells.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/671271 

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/a-picture-and-1000-words-4329516/episodes/an-irish-palatine-johann-chris-136209739

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/a-picture-and-1000-words-4329516/episodes/adding-more-to-the-switzer-sto-136209742 

https://apictureand1000wordsblog.wordpress.com/2021/04/02/an-irish-palatine-johann-christopher-schweitzer-1685-1755/ 

https://apictureand1000wordsblog.wordpress.com/2021/03/18/__trashed-2/ 

https://apictureand1000wordsblog.wordpress.com/2021/04/02/an-irish-palatine-johann-christopher-schweitzer-1685-1755/ 

 https://conflictinglegacies.wordpress.com/chapter-5-the-palatine-irish-farmers/

 https://shiergenealogy.ca/p265.htm 

 

Her married name was Switzer.
Marriage*	Catherine Elizabeth Ruckle married Johann CHRISTOPHER Switzer, son of Johann Jacob Schweitzer and Anna Maria Jonerin, in 1720.

https://ogs.on.ca/shop/irish-palatine-pioneers-in-upper-canada-commemorating-300-years-1907-2009/

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ICE agents are breaking the law and will be prosecuted once their identities are tracked down: Jay Jay Legal

 

 This is why I love America. My dad was an attorney. We need justice.

@richardszablewski1420

3 hours ago

A former ICE Agent who was with ICE for 25 years, left because they were not going to participate in these Nazi like tactics endorse by , Stephen Miller, Tom Homan and Todd Lyons. When they were with ICE only once in 25 years did they wear a mask, and that was because of Covid. They showed identification when asked, they never once kidnapped an individual like they are doing now. They came with a warrant with an individuals name on it, and it was signed by a judge. And they never hung out at a courthouse, because these individuals were following the procedures to become a United States citizen, This former ICE Agent is disgusted what is happening now. And that is the reason they left ICE. And they believe that Karma will catch up to every single one of them. And the excuse I am just following orders will not cut it.

 you are referring to Drumpf with 14 phone contacts in Epstein's black book. Drumpf, as Sarah Ransome reported, was a routine abuser at Epstein's Manhattan mansion. Michael Wolf has epstein on audio describing Drumpf as his closest friend for 15 years! That's the lowest scum evil in prison.