She had a kind of lockjaw of grief such as children suffer and suffer for.
Her obstinacy was hardly more than a lockjaw of fright, the stubbornness of a drowning child afraid to let go.
They knew what lockjaw was--Uncle John Quarles's black man, Dan, was subject to it.
Uncle Dan'l was a favorite, too-kind-hearted and dependable, while his occasional lockjaw gave him an unusual distinction.
These toxins are chosen from those which produce madness or lockjawwhen absorbed through the pores.
I am not reckless enough to try to pronounce it when I am awake, but I make a stagger at it in my dreams, and get up with thelockjaw in the morning.
And then the lockjaw closes down and nips off a couple of the last syllables--but they taste good.
The poison produced by the tetanus bacillus is of this nature, and recovery from lockjaw is of the rarest occurrence.
Much the same is true of the bacillus which causes tetanus or lockjaw (Fig.
But mankind in general will never adopt it, since the danger from lockjaw is so small.
Many cases of lockjaw result every year from wounds inflicted by the toy pistols, firecrackers, etc.
These are due to the embedding in the skin or flesh of small solid particles on which are lockjaw germs.
The lane to the Lockjaw led past the shambles, that stood a little out of the village.
If Ewan found Dan at the Lockjaw Creek, why did not the young man Jarvis find both of them there?
But have you not stated that lockjaw is the last symptom in strychnia tetanus?
On the fourth day of his illness the muscular pains extended to the face, and particularly to the lower jaw, and by evening lockjaw had come on, with pains of the muscles of the bowels, legs, and arms.
In infants there is a more marked symptom of lockjaw in idiopathic tetanus.
William Macdonald, of Edinburgh, who saw the case about an hour after the attack, admitted that lockjaw came on in about an hour or two after he was called in.
The germs of lockjaw are found in manure and in soil fertilized with it; hence, a bullet which passes through such soil before wounding carries these germs into the wound.
Also, wounds made by toy pistols and fire-crackers often contain lockjaw germs.
At first sight, this record of mortality from lockjaw would seem to be conclusive, yet it is perhaps, of all the maladies mentioned, the most deceptive as a means of determining the growth of neural diseases.
Since then, the lockjaw penalty which we pay for our highly intelligent method of celebrating the Fourth, has diminished considerably.
It is often said that lockjaw or tetanus is caused by a wound made by a rusty nail.
No person need die of lockjaw if these directions are followed.
That was a sane Fourth of July celebration that I attended, and I must say that Mr. Lockjaw Germ looked a bit lonely.
Young Mr. Lockjaw Germ; do you know I think that he has gotten the big head.
Clostridium tetani or lockjaw bacillus, Corynebacterium diphtheriae or the diphtheria bacillus, Clostridium botulinum or a bacillus causing a type of food poisoning, Pseudomonas pyocyanea or the blue pus bacillus are the most important.
Didn't you say no one could get up or down theLockjaw when the tide is up?
The two paths that led to the Lockjaw came together within a hundred yards at the end.
When they reached the Lockjaw they descended to the bay, got into one of the boats, and pushed off.
Mona could see the black outline of the Lockjaw headland from where she was stationed.
But at that moment they caught sight of Danny's fire on the Lockjaw Head.
Danny, from the head of the Lockjaw you can see the light on the end of the pier.
Christian reflected that the police, when he heard their footsteps, had been running to Lockjaw Creek.
There are two paths from the Lockjaw to Kisseck's house.
Mona set off for the Lockjaw Creek, thinking that some trace of Christian might perhaps be found there.
One did not commence so, nor did lockjaw become so marked in it as to prevent swallowing once during the course of the disease.
In infants there is a more marked symptom of lockjaw than in traumatic tetanus.
But have you not stated that lockjaw is the last symptom that occurs in strychnine tetanus?
During the whole fortnight the lockjaw or trismus continued.
But we have got to put up with what we happen to have, as the dog said who got lockjaw from swallowing a bunch of keys.
Stories that would put a victim of lockjaw in hysterics couldn't coax a snicker from that undertaker's face of his which would have made a supreme court justice look like a clown.
