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paralysis agitans

NOUN
Parkinson's disease
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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

In the old days when malaria was a common diagnosis for many different conditions, paralysis agitans apparently followed malaria so often that there was thought to be some connection between the two diseases.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Paresis, locomotor ataxy and paralysis agitans are not, as is usually assumed, due to secondary and tertiary syphilis, but to the mercury administered for the cure of luetic and other diseases.

From Nature Cure by Lindlahr, Henry

Frenkel has shown that it is applicable in paralysis agitans and markedly relieves the rigidity that is so annoying a symptom.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)