On the other hand, recovery may ensue after the stuporous condition has lasted for several weeks.
A monster serpent had boldly come out of the sea and coiled itself up in Wall Street, emitting foul, stuporous fumes as well as distilled poison through financial channels.
He remained in this stuporous condition, leading a more or less passive existence, for about a month after admission.
Memory, for both recent and remote events, fair, with complete amnestic gaps for the stuporous periods.
He had a total amnesia of what had transpired during his stuporous and agitated states and a retrograde amnesia for several days prior to, and including the commission of the murder.
Patient has an adequate amount of insight into his stuporous state, but does not realize that his entire make-up is more or less pathological in character.
Has been uninterruptedly clear mentally since his last stuporous state, in November, 1908.
He was again in a stuporouscondition on his readmission to our hospital, and absolutely oblivious to his surroundings.
This excitement, which required the application of constant restraint, was followed by a stuporousstate and total clouding of consciousness.
From this time until the later part of April, 1903, he had alternating periods of stupor and lucidity, with amnesia for the stuporous states.
August, 1907:--Has been again in a stuporous state for four days.
Stuporous conditions may introduce the latter, and, vice versa, Ganser complexes may creep into the stupor.
The next stage is reached where the stuporous case can be stood upon his feet but cannot be induced to walk.
When deafness is associated with mutism, he thinks it is often due merely to the inattention of the stuporous state.
Rarely, protracted stuporous states occur in epilepsy which closely resemble the conditions described in this book.
From thisstuporous state she emerged during the next four weeks, the awakening being associated with persistent efforts to arouse her.
It is perhaps no exaggeration to claim that a deeply stuporouspatient needs as much attention as a suckling babe.
In 24 hours she woke up, began to sing “Rest for the Weary,” prayed, then wasstuporous again for six hours.
Even during the morestuporous state she could, a few times, be made to write a little.
The stuporous face is empty, that of the other lined with melancholy.
The stuporous case, on the other hand, evidences merely less and less indifference, and more and more interest in his environment and in himself as he gets well.
Case 15) claimed that while stuporous her tongue would not move.
She was also more in contact with her environment than many stuporous patients are, for, not infrequently, she would look at what was going on about her.
Hence, while the visit of a husband is likely to produce nothing but vituperation or blows from a manic wife, the stuporous woman may greet him affectionately and regain thereby some contact with the world.
He lost consciousness for five hours and was picked up stuporous with verbal amnesia, which soon passed leaving only a difficulty in getting the right word promptly.
The patient was stuporous and had incontinence of urine and feces for two days.
Re confusional mental states, Roussy and Lhermitte, after distinguishing stuporous confusion from simple confusion, go on to differentiate what they call obtusion (see also discussion under Case 353).
Should they persist, it is clear that a stuporous paralysis might be transformed into a hysterical paralysis.
He passed into a stuporous condition with a suggestion of catatonia.
These stuporous cases are among the most serious of the conditions found, as some of the victims may even suggest dementia praecox from the persistence of childishness and silliness.
To be sure, the stuporous and catatonic cases are not very much in evidence in the army; when such cases do occur, it is easy enough to evacuate the patients to a hospital for observation.
He was inactive, depressed, and stuporous looking.
