shaking palsy

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In 1817, the English surgeon James Parkinson reported that some patients with a condition he termed “shaking palsy” experienced constipation.

From Scientific American

I wondered how could this man be forgotten when everybody knows his name, because he was the first to describe the shaking palsy condition that later became known as Parkinson’s disease?

From Washington Post

Yet the term “shaking palsy” persisted until its last appearance in The Times as a synonym for Parkinson’s disease in an Associated Press dispatch on Nov. 3, 1983.

From New York Times

Her little old step-mother sat in a stuff chair covered with a sheep-skin; she sat there night and day, shivering with the shaking palsy.

From Project Gutenberg

We have been familiar with asthma, goitre, pen-paralysis, shaking palsy, spasms, and heart diseases of various kinds.

From Project Gutenberg