Complex sentence: The existence and nature of a purported male hysteria was a debated topic in the late nineteenth century: between 1875 and 1902, some three hundred medical articles where devoted to the topic, as well as dozens of dissertations.
Split into simpler sentences: The existence and nature of a purported male hysteria was a debated topic in the late nineteenth century. Between 1875 and 1902, some three hundred medical articles where devoted to the topic, as well as dozens of dissertations.