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"Catalepsy" Quotes from Famous Books

... sensual energy with which Rodin pronounced the word "amorous." Hardy started, changing from hot to cold. For the first time, his weakened mind caught a glimpse of the fatal pleasures of asceticism, and of that deplorable catalepsy, described in the lives of St. ...

— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue

... seemed to assume something of a cataleptic character, though I cannot find any record of that most characteristic symptom of catalepsy, the rigid persistence of a limb in any position in which it may be placed. What was called the "state of death," is thus ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 • Various

... from the scenes referred to in my last letter, which are witnessed at religious revivals. One person became hysterical, then another; one was seized with catalepsy, then others; some with convulsions; some with palpitations of the heart, perspirations, and other bodily disturbances. These effects, however various and different, went all by the name of "salutary crises." The method was supposed to produce, in the sick person, exactly the kind of action propitious ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various

Words linked to "Catalepsy" : hypersomnia, cataleptic