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Continual Pain & today my Palsies barely allow me to eat.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

In all kinds where it is necessary to make any Attraction; but more especially in Apoplexies, Vapours in Women, Palsies, and other Distempers of the like Nature.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

Dr. Kirkland, in his commentary on Apoplectic and Paralytic Affections, &c. cites the following case, related by Dr. Charlton, as belonging, he says, to the class of Shaking Palsies.

From An Essay on the Shaking Palsy by Parkinson, James

But say that this a Constitution has, Firm and unshaken as a pile of Brass Yet who'd Endure the Palsies, aching Heads?

From The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses from Men by Various

Unless attention is paid to one circumstance, this disease will be confounded with those species of passive tremblings to which the term Shaking Palsies has frequently been applied.

From An Essay on the Shaking Palsy by Parkinson, James