catalepsy

Dr. Coleridge "considered it to be a contagious nervous disease, the acme or intensest form of which is catalepsy."

But even as he spoke he stiffened as a man suddenly struck with catalepsy.

Other critics have tried to explain the Prophet's actions by some kind of a catalepsy, from which, they claim, he suffered.

Filled with a vague fear, he tried to waken his wife, but she was like one in a state of catalepsy.

Undoubtedly it was a case of catalepsy, and Enistor felt curious to see the man who had been so nearly buried alive.