paralysis agitans
Britishnoun
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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
Anyone who has much to do with cases of paralysis agitans, however, knows that they are extremely susceptible to mental influences.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
In older people they sometimes pass over into paralysis agitans or a close simulant of that affection.
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
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