 The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though I was quite conscious of all that was happening.  The Medical World - Page 1671888Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Villiers Denney, Eleanor Louise Skinner, Ada Maria Skinner - English language - 1926 - 456 pages
...shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of a cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess in which there was no sense of pain, nor feeling of terror. Turning round to relieve myself of the weight, as he had one paw on the back of my head, I saw his... | |
 | 604 pages
...was upon a little height. He caught my shoulder as he sprang, and we both came to the ground below together. Growling horribly close to my ear, he shook...was no sense of pain, nor feeling of terror, though I was quite conscious of all that was happening. It was like what patients, partially under the influence... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1892 - 406 pages
...was upon a little height; he caught my shoulder as he sprang, and we both came to the ground below together. Growling horribly close to my ear, he shook...of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain or feeling of terror, although I was quite conscious of all that was happening. It was like what patients,... | |
 | Daniel Goleman - Psychology - 1985 - 294 pages
...both came to the ground below together. Growling horribly close to my ear, he shook me as a terrier does a rat. The shock produced a stupor similar to...was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though [I was] quite conscious of all that was happening. It was like what patients partially under the influence... | |
 | Michael Anthony Corey - Deism - 1994 - 452 pages
...shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of a cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess in which there...was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though (I was) quite conscious of all that was happening. It was like what patients partially under the influence... | |
 | H. Peter Steeves - Philosophy - 1999 - 314 pages
...write about being taken up in the mouth of a lion and shaken "as a terrier-dog does a rat." He reports: The shock produced a stupor similar to that which...of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain or feeling of terror, though I was quite conscious of all that was happening. It was like what patients,... | |
 | Rick Ridgeway - Nature - 1999 - 324 pages
...David Livingstone described what it was like when he was attacked by a lion, how it caused "a kind of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror. It was like what patients under chloroform describe who see all the operation but feel not the knife."... | |
 | Michael Anthony Corey - Religion - 2000 - 386 pages
...shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of a cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess in which there...was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though (I was) quite conscious of all that was happening. It was like what patients partially under the influence... | |
 | Alec Buchanan - Law - 2000 - 166 pages
...aetiology. David Livingstone, relating his experience of being seized by a lion, described 'a sense of dreaminess in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though I was quite conscious of all that was happening' (Hamilton 1985, p.75). Forensic psychiatrists report... | |
 | Avram Goldstein - Medical - 2001 - 372 pages
...Livingstone of being attacked by a lion: He caught my shoulder as he sprang ... he shook me as a terrier does a rat. The shock produced a stupor similar to...was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though [I was] quite conscious of all that was happening. . . . This peculiar state is probably produced in... | |
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