I do not have the juice to google this right now, so please be kind if the answer is obvious:

what is the men& #39;s equivalent to hysteria? by which I mean: how was undiagnosable chronic illness explained in men?

And I understand that this is a difficult and loaded question, but it is absolutely not true that all men have always been taken seriously by doctors. (Just like it& #39;s not true that all men are taken seriously by doctors now.)

Medical bias is so much more complicated than that.