stupour

Noun

 * 1) * 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick, tr. from French by Richard Tomlinson, page 540.
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- but Sage is ſo frequent, and endowed with ſo many eximious qualities, that a moſt commendable Conſerve, for many uſes, is made thereof; for by a ſpecial faculty, it roborates the Brain and Nerves, conduces much to trembling, ſtupour, palſey, and the affections of the Brain.


 * 1) * 1829, Louis Jacques Bégin, The French Practice of Medicine: Being a Translation of L. J. Begin's Treatise on Therapeutics, tr. by Xavier Tessier, vol. I, E. Bliss (publ.), page 114.
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- The symptoms of adynamy then persist, on the one hand, by the exhaustion of the vital actions, and the losses the organism has previously sustained; on the other, owing to the stupour of the brain.


 * 1) * 1859, John Bell, M.D., A Treatise on Baths; Including Cold, Sea, Warm, Hot, Vapour, Gas, and Mud Baths; also, on Hydropathy and Pulmonary Inhalation, Lindsay & Blakiston (publ., 2nd ed.), page 137.
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- Individuals exposed to it become vertiginous, and are almost in a state of stupour: their animal heat is augmented one or two degrees, and the pulse in an adult gives one hundred and fifteen to one hundred and twenty-four beats in a minute; and in a child of ten years of age gives one hundred and sixty.