Seized with an apoplexy. A sudden deprivation of all internal and external sensation, and of all motion, unless of the heart and thorax. The cause is generally a repletion, and indicates evacuation, joined with stimuli. Apoplexy is a sudden abolition of all the senses, external and internal, and of all voluntary motion, by the stoppage of the flux and reflux of the animal spirits through the nerves destined for those motions. Arbuthnot on Diet .
Peace is a very apoplexy , lethargy, mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible.
A fever may take away my reason, or memory, and an apoplexy leave neither sense nor understanding.