"The apparent death, however, was only a trance, or protracted swoon."

From “Fatal Experiment with Chloroform,” a story in an 1848 edition of the New York True Sun which is almost certainly false:

“A young lady, daughter of Mr. Macdonald, a baker in Catharine Street, in this city, recently met her death in the most awful manner, from the use of the now fashionable but most dangerous preparation. About three weeks ago, the ether was employed to allay a toothache; but subsequently the sufferer was supposed to die, from what cause does not appear. The apparent death, however, was only a trance, or protracted swoon; for, on opening the coffin a day or two ago, the unfortunate girl had turned round upon her face, and in her agony and desperation had actually destroyed two of her fingers, on recovering from temporary death by ether. The Coroner’s investigation should elicit the fact as to who prescribed a remedy which produced this most frightful result.”