Paper, 'Case of a cataleptic woman' by Richard Reynell Reynell shares the case study of a young woman, Ann Bullard, who 'had been for sometime [sic] irregular in her menses, and very much afflicted from the loss of a friend', and who suffers from head and stomach pains as well as a 'general disorder'. Reynell describes Bullard as 'senseless, stiff, and void of feeling [...] it was thought she was dead', diagnosing her with a 'cataleptic fit'. He goes on to describe the treatment for her condition. Subject: Medicine / Paralysis Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The case of a cataleptick woman' Read to the Royal Society on 19 April 1733 11 July 1730