From 1837 - 1901, doctors gave their female patients orgasms for "hysteria" because the men didn't believe in such things. Oh medicine, how far you've been laid low.
A good orgasm as a treatment for anxiety and depression? The medicals doctors thought so.
Female Hysteria: When Victorian Doctors Used to Finger Their Patients
In the Victorian Era – specifically 1837 to 1901 – doctors treated woman by genital stimulation to induce “hysterical paroxysm” or an orgasm. This hysteria was supposed to be a build-up of fluid in the woman’s womb and doctors assumed that since men ejaculated and felt better then it stood to reason.
https://www.vintag.es/2019/09/female-hysteria.html?m=1