trismus
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This is substantially the same thing as trismus, except that it extends to other parts, and often to nearly all the muscles of the organism.
From A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Daniel Clark
The peculiar effects of a tapeworm are exaggerated appetite and thirst, nausea, headaches, vertigo, ocular symptoms, cardiac palpitation, and Mursinna has even observed a case of trismus, or lockjaw, due to taenia solium.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
He adds that the trismus may be thus converted into 'Bi-trismus.'
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
For traumatic trismus, use the B D current, of vigorous force.
From A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Daniel Clark
It is recommended in the above mentioned doses for delirium tremens, trismus, tetanus and kindred diseases of the nervous system, repeated every hour or half-hour until relief is obtained.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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