catalepsy

• “For several years I had been subject to attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy, in default of a more definitive title.”

  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2

• “He noted that during one phase of hypnotism, known as catalepsy, the arms, limbs, etc., might be placed in any position and would remain there; he also noted that a puff of breath would usually awaken a subject, and that by talking to a subject and telling him to do this or do that, even after he awakes from the sleep, he can be made to do those things.”

  Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use

• “If a solar spectrum is suddenly brought into a dark room it may produce catalepsy, which is also produced by looking at the sun, or a lime light, or an electric light.”

  Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use

• “Auntie's piety was not of the niggerish kind, even Zoe, "The Octoroon," or any other woman or man in whose veins courses the blood of Ham four times diluted, knows that I mean it was not that glory-hallelujah variety of cunning or delusion, compounded of laziness and catalepsy, which is popular among the shouting, shirt-tearing sects of plantation darkies, who "git relijin" and fits twelve times a year.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866

• “It acts in a peculiar manner upon the nervous centers, occasioning that strange condition of the nervous system called catalepsy, in which the limbs of the unconscious patient remain stationary in whatever position they may be placed.”

  Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics

• “It can only have been the condition that is called catalepsy," said Challenger.”

  The Poison Belt: Being an Account of Another Amazing Adventure of Professor Challenger

• “It can only have been the condition that is called catalepsy,' said Challenger.”

  The Poison Belt

• “If it is catalepsy he is suffering from, then it is a kind of catalepsy I never heard of.”

  The Beetle

• “On her fifth hypnotisation, however, Lucie underwent a kind of catalepsy, after which she returned to the somnambulic state; but that state was deeper than before.”

  Real Ghost Stories

• “The magicians of Egypt in modern times have been long celebrated adepts in charming serpents, and particularly by pressing the nape of the neck, they throw them into a kind of catalepsy, which renders them stiff and immovable -- thus seeming to change them into a rod.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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