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Then the good woman, continuing to walk, replied in a husky voice, as though it came from a distance: "It was syncope. I heard you all the while." An embarrassing silence followed. They entered the dining-room, and in a few minutes all sat down to an improvised dinner. Only M. Braux had retained his self-possession.
He, or she, is found alone by a servant, or a third person, in a profound lethargy from which neither restoratives nor violent shocks upon the nerves can produce any awakening. In one hour, or a few hours, it is over. There is an examination, and the authorities pronounce an ambiguous verdict death from a syncope of the heart. Such things happen, they say, with a shake of the head.
Then Homais asked how the accident had come about. Charles answered that she had been taken ill suddenly while she was eating some apricots. "Extraordinary!" continued the chemist. "But it might be that the apricots had brought on the syncope. Some natures are so sensitive to certain smells; and it would even be a very fine question to study both in its pathological and physiological relation.
A new and veritable heart-divorce of England from the Babylonish woman, who is Jesuitism and Unveracity, and dwells not at Rome now, but under your own nose and everywhere; whom, and her foul worship of Phantasms and Devils, poor England had once divorced, with a divine heroism not forgotten yet, and well worth remembering now: a Phantasms which have too long nestled thick there, under those astonishing "Defenders of the Faith," Defenders of the Hypocrisies, the spiritual Vampires and obscene Nightmares, under which England lies in syncope; this is what you need; and if you cannot get it, you must die, my poor friend!
The widow gave a dreadful shriek, and interrupted the two captains, who were each just in the act of swallowing a bumper of claret. "Fly fly save him," she screamed; "save him, monsters, ere it is too late! Drowned! Frederick! Bachelor's Wa " Syncope took place, and the rest of the sentence was interrupted.
Rouse thee up, Albert; I promise thee it will be nothing save a syncope A cup, my dearest Alice, and a ribbon or a bandage. I must take some blood some aromatics, too, if they can be had, my good Alice."
In all the syncopes, which I have seen induced after convulsive fits, the pulse has continued natural, though the organs of sense, as well as the locomotive muscles, have ceased to perform their functions; for it is necessary for the perception of objects, that the external organs of sense should be properly excited by the voluntary power, as the eye-lids must be open, and perhaps the muscles of the eye put into action to distend, and thence give greater pellucidity to the cornea, which in syncope, as in death, appears flat and less transparent.
She wanted not to faint, though it was not clear that syncope would make matters any the worse. But the longer he paused before knocking again, the better for Aunt M'riar. The knock came, a crescendo on the previous one. She had to respond some time. Make an effort and get it over! "That * young guttersnipe's given me a bad character," muttered Wix, as he heard the chain slipped into its sheath.
=Cold.= The weak, aged, or infants, readily succumb to low temperatures. The symptoms are increasing lassitude, drowsiness, coma, with sometimes illusions of sight. Post mortem, bright red patches are found on the skin surface, and the blood remains fluid for long. =Heat.= Death may result from syncope, the result of exposure to great heat.
#Syncope or Fainting.# Syncope is the result of a suddenly produced anæmia of the brain from temporary weakening or arrest of the heart's action. In surgical practice, this condition is usually observed in nervous persons who have been subjected to pain, as in the reduction of a dislocation or the incision of a whitlow; or in those who have rapidly lost a considerable quantity of blood.
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