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Moreover, there was no bewilderment at any time. No resistance, but cataleptic tendencies were still seen occasionally. There was at no time the peculiar dazed uneasiness and slow restlessness associated with the idea of being in the deep, dark water.
Well, the long and the short of it was, that I had him taken into the house, and washed, and put to bed, and I had the doctor sent for. The doctor could make nothing of it at all. He reported that the man seemed to be suffering from some sort of cataleptic seizure, I could see that he thought it likely to turn out almost as interesting a case as I did.
Nevertheless it was remarked as an anomaly that when she was thrown into a cataleptic state, not only did the movements impressed upon her continue to be made, but the corresponding or complimentary movements, the corresponding facial expression, followed just as they usually follow in such experiments.
This lasted for about a week, and then she was, as the description says, “depressed and cataleptic.” She remained in this condition for about a month, during which time there was a slight rise of temperature. Then she improved gradually and was discharged three months after admission.
This doctor, in the course of a cataleptic seizure in Florida, was aware that he had left his body, which he saw lying beside him. He had none the less preserved his figure and his identity. The thought of some friend at a distance came into his mind, and after an appreciable interval he found himself in that friend's room, half way across the continent.
He stood still as if cataleptic, his eyes fixed on the drawings till their outlines grew indistinct and they ran into each other, and a pale, sweet face shaped itself out of the glimmering light through which he saw them. What is there quite so profoundly human as an old man's memory of a mother who died in his earlier years?
Her jaws were closed tightly, and the attempt to open her mouth had broken off some of the teeth level with the gums. The muscles contracted at the least breath or touch, and the arms remained in position when uplifted. The contraction of the muscles is a sign of the lethargic state, but the arm, remaining in position, indicates the cataleptic state.
I lay bound, for a while, in a cataleptic reverie, and then I passed away once more into darkness and syncope. It was evening when I revived Dr. Pemberton was sitting beside me, holding my pulse Mrs. Austin and Mabel were at the bedside. This was, at last, the end I craved; of all, I hoped. "The wine, Mrs. Austin," the doctor said, in low accents. "Quick! one spoonful instantly.
He had to awake from the dead and cry for light, and was soon in the bitter agony of the cataleptic struggle between life and death. He thought afterwards, when the time had passed, that surely in this period of darkness he had been visited and upheld by a power whose presence and even influence escaped his consciousness. He knew not how else he could have got through it.
That basilisk glare held him fast. With every faculty of his mind he fought against the influence which was slowly, irresistibly, shackling his brain. He laughed, he shouted defiance at Bellward and Strangwise, he sang snatches of songs. But Bellward never moved a muscle. He seemed to be in a kind of cataleptic trance, so rigid his body, so unswerving his stare.
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