[W]e could find no evidence that physicians ever used electromechanical vibrators to induce orgasms in female patients as a medical treatment [for hysteria]. I

[W]e could find no evidence that physicians ever used electromechanical vibrators to induce orgasms in female patients as a medical treatment [for hysteria]. I always thought that whole "Victorian physicians used vibrators to treat female hysteria" thing seemed fishy... -- We examined every source that Maines cites in support of her core claim. None of these sources actually do so. I wonder if, when NLP is sufficiently robust, one could automate this fact-checking process en masse...