Movie about the man who invented the vibrator

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The conversation is unusual. I wonder. Gyllenhaal, playing a sooty-faced social campaigner, is inside while her leading man, Dancy, is pacing the drive outside. He looks perplexed. There is just no way around it — all movies have climaxes, after all. The movie in question is called Hysteria and it is set in a London that is buzzing sorry with change.

The first mechanical vibrator designed for the massage of men and women was invented in the early 18th century. Mortimer Granville Hugh Dancy is an idealistic doctor in Victorian London, trying to convince his sceptical colleagues of germ theory and the importance of hygiene. This annoys them so much that he keeps getting sacked, and he finally ends up at the upmarket practice of Robert Dalrymple Jonathan Pryce , treating ladies suffering from hysteria. According to Dr Rachel P Maines of the Cornell University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, whose enthralling book The Technology of Orgasm is a history of vibrators, hysteria from the Greek, "that which proceeds from the uterus" was commonly diagnosed in women as far back as BC in ancient Egypt.

I wanted to know how and why it came to be. Mortimer Granville Dancy , a London physician who bristles against the old-fashioned treatments favored by the medical establishment in Granville ultimately finds work with Dr. Robert Dalrymple Jonathan Pryce , who needs help treating the throngs of women who flock to his practice with vague symptoms.