@Ionus,
Ionus wrote:How did the medical community come up with the term "PMS"? "Mad Cow Disease" was already taken.
If you could read Ionic Greek, you could read the
Hippocratic Corpus in original.
But he really didn't use that term for it. Nor did Georg Ernst Stahl, when he wrote in 1702 his dissertation about (PhD in medicine).
It was only in 1931 that Robert C. Frank coined the term "premenstrual tension". And in 1953 Dalton and Greene called it as what it is known today.
(Since 1987 listed in the DSM-III, appendix A)
"Mad Cow Disease" isn't a term used in the medical community. The veterinaries (and physicians) call it BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy). BSE is known since 1983, but there may have cattle with this disease before.