paralysis agitans
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Sir Henry Head, 79, famed British neurologist; of paralysis agitans; in Reading, England.
From Time Magazine Archive
His paralysis agitans involved his whole emaciated body in one miserable stammer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fright is mentioned by nearly all those who write on the subject as at least an occasion for the development of paralysis agitans if not a cause.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
In older people they sometimes pass over into paralysis agitans or a close simulant of that affection.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Let nobody suppose for a moment that this was a case of paralysis agitans, or St. Vitus' Dance.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by John St. Loe Strachey
