The terms blepharospasm and blepharoclonus, sometimes applied to tonic and to clonic involuntary palpebral contractions respectively, ought to be strictly reserved for spasms and contractures properly so called.
By April 15 the contractures had disappeared, and he could perform any movement of relaxation himself.
Gerssdorff has much to say with regard to contractures and anchyloses.
He did not believe very much in going too slowly about the correction, for he declares that most of the contractures and anchyloses can be overcome in a few hours.
Ambroise Pare, as I have said, accomplished similar results, but he also used a number of forms of apparatus for the cure of club foot and for the prevention of contractures in the joints as a consequence of paralysis.
When these deformities are to be corrected, the tissues around the joints should be softened by means of embrocations and the rubbing in of old oil, and the contractures gradually overcome by manipulation or by instrumental means.
The disease began with intense pain in the legs, and contractures of the hands and feet.
Usually the pulse was strong and equal; a weak, unequal and intermittent pulse, with contractures of the tendons and convulsive motions in the wrists, was an omen of death.
In the Suffolk cases of 1762 there were both contractures of the limbs and gangrene.
In fact, these reflex contractures are exactly as fixed and persistent as contractures of clearly organic origin.
The contractures and paroxysms lasted a few minutes.
Contractures of the fingers and toes in those who injure themselves to avoid military service.
The greater number ofcontractures and ankyloses are the result of disease in the joint, and have already been described.
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