Charcot held that female hysteria arose from emotion, male from accidents.

Evidence

During the 1870s, Charcot began working on hysteria and soon took over the territory. Among his patients we find men whom he considered hysteric. If hysteria is hereditary, it could also be brought upon by trauma caused by accidents, he thought, or consumption of alcohol and toxic substances. Further, he reckoned that female hysteria was caused by emotion while male hysteria was caused by accidents or toxic substances. — Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self, 227

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the reader’s interest in gendered medical framing; also resonates with ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ theme of gendered moral/medical discourse.