For traumatic trismus, use the B D current, of vigorous force. From Wordnik.com. [A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication] Reference
In such cases we have complete trismus (lockjaw), and all the head symptoms are acutely developed. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
According to the muscles involved, it is styled trismus, emprosthotonos, opisthotonos and pleuristhotonos. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
The doctor goes into an explanation, which lasts a quarter of an hour, of the trismus, employing the most scientific terms. From Wordnik.com. [Analytical Studies] Reference
The tetanus consists of a fixed spasm of almost all the muscles of the body; but the trismus, or locked jaw, is the most frequent disease of this kind. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
This withheld amphophilic mupirocin that chantix at a sweet caffine of 1 preggy per tide or 2 definition per pharyngitis was trismus as an glutamyl to temperament cessation. From Wordnik.com. [Wii-volution] Reference
Erotomania may be compared to trismus, or other muscular fixed spasm, without much subsequent pain; and mæror to cramp of the muscles of the leg, or other fixed spasm with subsequent pain. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Based on his belief that the movement of newborns 'skull bones during protracted births causes trismus, he also uses a shoemaker's awl, a pointed tool shoemakers use to make holes in leather, to practice moving the skull bones of babies born to enslaved mothers (Brinker). From Wordnik.com. [Articles of Health] Reference
In an article on the successful preventive treatment of tetanus neonatorum, or the "scourge of St. Kilda," of the new-born, Turner says the first mention of trismus nascentium or tetanus neonatorum was made by Rev. Kenneth Macaulay in 1764, after a visit to the island of St. Kilda in 1758. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
The idea of inflaming the membranes of the teeth to produce increased sensation in them, and thus to prevent their irritative connection with those of the cranium, was taken from the treatment of trismus, or locked jaw, by endeavouring to inflame the injured tendon; which is said to prevent or to remove the spasm of the muscles of the jaw. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Tetanus trismus, iii. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
We call that a trismus. ". From Wordnik.com. [Analytical Studies] Reference
But there is another source of excessive fibrous action, and consequent pain, which is from excess of volition, which is liable to affect those muscles, that have weak antagonists; as those which support the under jaw, and close the mouth in biting, and those of the calf of the leg; which are thus liable to fixed or painful contractions, as in trismus, or locked jaw, and in the cramp of the calf of the leg; and perhaps in some colics, as in that of Japan: these pains, from contraction arising from excess of volition in the part from the want of the counteraction of antagonist muscles, may give occasional cause to epileptic fits, and may be relieved in the same way, either by exciting irritative and sensitive motions by the stimulus of opium and wine; or by convulsions or insanity, as described above, which are only different methods of exhausting the general quantity of sensorial power. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
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