Cure love sickness with sex, says research

8220;Love sickness was quite often a 8216;class-crossed8217; love when a rich person was in love with a servant but they weren8217;t allowed to express that,8221; she said.

Dr Dawson, whose results are published in the book Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature said that the best cure was seen to be sex 8211; and this would often be recommended to the patient8217;s family.

She said, 8220;According to early writers, sex expelled the lover8217;s excess blood and seed, which accumulated in the body and putrefied, releasing harmful vapours that could cause melancholy8221;.