shaking palsy

The self-contradictoriness is maintained in the English name of "shaking palsy."

PD was then known as paralysis agitans (shaking palsy in English).

Parkinson's was originally called a "shaking palsy," but not everyone with Parkinson's has a tremor.

Shakes: A thin, hairy vagrant who upsets people through stutters and an overall shaking palsy.

He also led the disease, which was formerly named paralysis agitans (shaking palsy), to be renamed on behalf of James Parkinson.

Sarah Nock has distilled her 20 years' experience of living with the shaking palsy into a fine book, Pondering on Parkinson's (£6.99, www.ferryhousebooks.co.uk).

Paralysis agitans; Shaking palsy Parkinson's disease was first described in England in 1817 by Dr. James Parkinson.

James Parkinson publishes An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, describing "paralysis agitans", the condition which will become known as Parkinson's disease.

The disease is named after the English doctor James Parkinson, who published the first detailed description in An Essay on the Shaking Palsy in 1817.

The history of Parkinson's disease expands from 1817, when British apothecary James Parkinson published An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, to modern times.

Uncle Fred left four sons, two of whom had followed him into the Marines and a widow, Aunt May, who suffered from what was then referred to as shaking palsy.

This James Parkinson is best known as the first scientific description of a disease he called the Shaking Palsy, now referred to as Parkinson's disease in his honour.

An Essay on the Shaking Palsy described the characteristic resting tremor, abnormal posture and gait, paralysis and diminished muscle strength, and the way that the disease progresses over time.

Hobbes' chief disability was 'the shaking palsy in his hands' -by his mid- seventies he was unable to write legibly and relied on an amanuensis to get his thoughts on to paper.

"Tanglefoot" is a derivative of the nerve gas we had been using on Bugs in the past - instead of killing, it gives any Bug that trots through it a sort of shaking palsy.

From 1817 London there is an original copy of "An Essay on the Shaking Palsy," the first published description of a disease that would come to be known by the name of the author, John Parkinson.

He is most famous for his 1817 work, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy in which he was the first to describe "paralysis agitans", a condition that would later be renamed Parkinson's disease by Jean-Martin Charcot.

James Parkinson (1755-1824), the physician and author of An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, the subject of which is now known as Parkinson's disease, was in practice at 1 Hoxton Square, which is commemorated with a blue plaque on the site.

In 1817, the British doctor James Parkinson wrote "An Essay on the Shaking Palsy," in which he described a disease that caused its sufferers to shake uncontrollably, but that left their intellect unharmed [source: European Parkinson's Disease Association].