catalepsy
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We have heard of trances, catalepsies, which simulate death so closely that even physicians are deceived.
From The Grey Room by Phillpotts, Eden
Sudden outcries, hysteric weeping and laughter, faintings, catalepsies, trances, were customary concomitants of the revival preaching.
From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey
No more pain—that is, dismissal of lancet and bitter draught and miasma, and banishment of neuralgias and catalepsies and consumptions.
From New Tabernacle Sermons by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
Many ministers who became his pupils treated like him with skillful combination of religion and hypnoid influences the spasms, catalepsies, neurasthenias, paralysis, and deafness, of neurotic patients.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
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