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
Known to most laymen as "shaking palsy," the condition was named for James Parkinson, an English physician who described it in 1817.
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
The "shaking palsy" that Dr. James Parkinson, a London physician, distinguished in 1817 was relatively uncommon until the 1930s, when this ancient nervous disorder inexplicably erupted to nearly epidemic proportions.
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
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