It is characterised by the occurrence on the same side as the injury, of facial spasm, rapidly followed by more or less complete paralysis of the muscles of expression, with unilateral trismus and difficulty in swallowing.
Trismus is the most marked and constant form of spasm; and while the trunk muscles may be involved, those of respiration as a rule escape.
A curious case of mental trismus is reported by Raymond and Janet,[148] where the patient always spoke through his clenched teeth, but opened his mouth widely enough when showing his tongue or when eating.
But so long as any one of these causes is in operation, and especially if the affection be attended with pain, we are dealing with a trismus spasm, not a trismus tic.
For that matter, trismus is met with in hysteria, and may be regarded as a manifestation of that disease, although this cannot always be invoked as its cause.
The appearance of this trismus during the performance of certain functional acts, and of these alone, is unequivocal evidence of its mental derivation.
One is inclined to be less dogmatic where tonic or clonic convulsions of the jaws succeed violent fright, as in a case of trismus of nine months' duration recorded by Billot and Francotte.
Trismus is not uncommon, and clonic spasms frequently affect the limbs.
He also reports cases in which trismus and spasm of the glottis have been present.
The clonic nature of the spasms and the entire absence of trismus serve to distinguish it from tetanus.
Szukowsky in the neurological clinic of the Military Medical Academy, trismus developed.
May 12, and developed signs of tetanus August 1, with trismus and pains and spasms in the right leg.
The cases as a rule appear in subjects that have had serum treatment, and may occur in subjects in whom no trismus ever develops (the above case showed slight trismus).
The coma is also similar in appearance to apoplectic coma, but there have frequently been seen trismus and convulsions of the extremities.
In a few cases epileptic attacks and trismus have been observed.
Calomel and opium were now given; salivation appeared three days afterward, the trismus subsided, and the man gradually convalesced.
Seventeen days after trismus set in, when a further examination of the wound led to the discovery of an angular fragment of shell which had been previously overlooked.
He was doing well until nearly a fortnight after the injury, when nervous irritation and trismus set in, and he sank.
During the whole fortnight the lockjaw or trismus continued.
The pleuro-tothonos and trismuslasted about a fortnight.
In June, 1854, I attended a person named Sarah Ann Taylor, fortrismus and pleuro-tothonos.
In March, 1855, she was under my care about a week, during the whole of which the trismus continued.
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