shaking palsy

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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 • Sep. 1, 2017

A million or more Americans, most of them over 50, suffer from Parkinson's disease, once generally known as "shaking palsy."

From Time Magazine Archive

Belladonna is used for ailments of the intestinal and respiratory tracts, the circulatory system, dilating the pupils for eye examination, treating shaking palsy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each year since the 1930s, an estimated 35,000 Americans have fallen victim to Parkinson's disease, or "shaking palsy."

From Time Magazine Archive

Today, however, we remember him for his landmark study of the affliction then called the "shaking palsy," but known ever since as Parkinson’s disease.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson