stupour

English

Noun

stupour (countable and uncountable, plural stupours)

1. Obsolete spelling of stupor
   • 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick, tr. from French by Richard Tomlinson, page 540.

     […] 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.

   • 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.

     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.

   • 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.

     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.