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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
Joseph Mortimer Granville filed the first patent for an electromechanical vibrator termed Granville's Hammer in about 1883. [5] Granville, however, did not apply his invention in the treatment of hysteria; rather, he used it to treat muscular disorders.
Cast. Maggie Gyllenhaal. Charlotte Dalrymple. Hugh Dancy. Dr. Mortimer Granville. Jonathan Pryce. Dr. Robert Dalrymple. Felicity Jones. Emily Dalrymple.
The spark of HYSTERIA began with a little-known quirk of history: in the 1880's, one Joseph Mortimer Granville, a highly-regarded English physician, designed and patented the battery-operated vibrator.
May 17, 2012 · In the film, Dr. Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) joins the practice of a “hysteria” specialist, Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce). Granville becomes engaged to the very proper Dalrymple...
May 25, 2012 · That’s where Dr. Mortimer Granville (played by the versatile Brit actor Hugh Dancy) comes in, to apply his professional turbo-fingering to the cause of mental health.
Set in London circa 1880, Hysteria is loosely based on the career of Joseph Mortimer Granville, the English physician who patented the first electromechanical vibrator. As played by angel-faced Hugh Dancy, Mortimer is an earnest, dedicated physician, but also a bit of a prig.
