In a medical diagnosis of hysteria, from the Hippocratic text Young Girls, there is a certain degree to which gender biases lurk behind and also implicitly get support from apparently "objective" scientific study:

Many people choke to death as a result of Visions, [especially] virgins who do not take a husband at the appropriate time for marriage, [and who thus], experience these visions . . . at the time of their first monthly period. . . . For after their first period the blood collects in the womb in preparation to flow out; but when the mouth of the womb is not opened up, and more blood flows into the womb . . .then [it] rushes up to the heart and to the lungs. When these are filled with blood, the heart becomes sluggish and then, because of the sluggishness, numb and then, because of the numbness, insanity takes hold of...