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.

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.

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.