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TIL of Freud's patient diagnosed with hysteria based on menstrual symptoms. A surgeon friend claimed he could cure it with nose surgery. Surgery botched, left her hemorrhaging and disfigured. Freud claimed her hemorrhage is "wish-bleeding" caused by a hysterical longing for the affection of others.

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