Hysteria is a 2011 British period romantic comedy film directed by Tanya Wexler. It stars Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal, with Felicity Jones, Jonathan Pryce, and Rupert Everett appearing in key supporting roles. The film, set in the Victorian era, shows how the medical management of hysteria led to the invention of the vibrator.The film’s title refers to the once-common medical diagnosis of female hysteria

Plot
London,1880. Mortimer Granville, 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 clings to leeches and hacksaws, scoff at his upstart ideas, and show him the door. But Granville’s fortunes change (in more ways than one) after he secures work in the well-appointed private offices of Dr. Robert Dalrymple, London’s leading specialist in women’s medicine