The document discusses the origins and history of hysteria, noting that Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, first identified and named hysteria in ancient Greece, believing it to be strictly a female problem where almost any issue a woman had was considered hysteria. It then moves to discuss how hysteria was viewed as a female problem by Greeks and Romans at the time, with Hippocrates being the first known person to study hysterical actions and tie the condition specifically to women.