TRISMUS DURING SERUM SICKNESS (SEPTIC FINGER)
R. F. Bolt · BMJ · 1916
TRISMUS DURING SERUM SICKNESS.[AUG.I2, 1916 machine or operator, and cases are then sent to the gym.nastic instructor, who begins with three tables of carefully compiled exercises, starting with half an hour's repetition of such simple movements as raising the heels, turning the head, and bending the arms and trunk, going over the body region by region in a definite progression.Here the wounded man is joined by cases of shock who are able to do only the lightest exercise, by men wlhose neurasthenia, enteric, or dvsentery has left them profoundly debilitated, and slowly they progress through this light physical training from stage to stage until they are able to march in quick time, to bend and twist, and use their arms freely.Wlhen they are able to do all these movements they are promoted to full physical training, which introduces quick and active movements, running, jumping, and gymnastic games teaching alertness, control, and agility; walking balanced on raised beams, or lifting their feet high as they go through wire entanglements, climbing walls and leaping ditches.Parallel -with this course goes graduated walking on level and then on hilly ground, starting with a mile or two at the patient's own pace, and even witlh the help of a stick, progressing to tlhree or four miles, and graduating