Note 21 — SYNCOPE: In which the pulsations of the heart cease, before the action of the respiratory organs.
Reading edition
Trance. Although this term is extremely familiar, it does not appear that any precise meaning is attached to it; the popular notion is that the body may for a time be abandoned by the soul, and remain for a certain period in a deep sleep, during which the exercise of the vital functions is so obscure, that the individual is reduced to a state of close simulation of death.