paralysis agitans

Parkinson suggested the name 'paralysis agitans' but it was "Parkinson's disease" that stuck, a name suggested by neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot after Parkinson's death.

This spread and finally became typical of paralysis agitans.

Sometimes, presumably when the context required more formality, The Times used the medical term for the illness, “paralysis agitans” — for example, in a report about Civil War pensions published April 2, 1894.

You seem perturbed, anxious, with slight symptoms of paralysis agitans.

The only nervous affections with which it could possibly be confounded are chorea and paralysis agitans.