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Dr. Mortimer Granville is a young physician who has difficulty with his occupation due to constant arguments over modern medicine. He gets a job assisting Dr. Dalrymple, whose practice specializes in the treatment of "hysteria", a popular diagnosis for women of that time.
In 1880 pioneering doctor Mortimer Granville, sacked from various hospitals for challenging his superiors' outmoded methods, gets a job with Dr Dalrymple, who relieves female patients' frustrations - or hysteria - with pelvic massages which allow orgasm.
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- Biography, Comedy, Romance
- Tanya Wexler
- 2011-12-14
London, 1880. MORTIMER GRANVILLE (Hugh Dancy), a dedicated and forward-thinking young doctor, is struggling to establish his career. While Granville preaches sanitation and germ theory, the old guard of doctors cling to leeches and hacksaws, scoff at his upstart ideas, and show him the door.
May 20, 2012 · On a recent morning, Hugh Dancy is on the phone from New York, pondering the appeal of Mortimer Granville, the English doctor he plays in Tanya Wexler's "Hysteria," a Victorian period comedy...
May 18, 2012 · Overview. Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator. Stephen Dyer.
May 17, 2012 · A progressive doctor and advocate of germ theory when the medical establishment was still using leeches, Mortimer is played by Mr. Dancy as a disciple of Hugh Grant in his sheepish, adorable man...
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Hysteria, set in London in the 1880s, follows the story of the ever-spirited young Doctor Mortimer Granville prior to his discovery of the vibrator and its medical benefits. Mortimer (Hugh Dancy) continually seeks betterment in the medical profession, and is enamoured with the breakthrough science.
