| James Parkinson - Parkinson's disease - 1817 - 86 pages
...from the affection, should the pen or pencil be taken up, the trembling immediately commences. II. A propensity to bend the trunk forwards, and to pass from a walking to a running pace. THIS affection, which observation seems to authorise the being considered as a symptom peculiar to... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...the genus paralysis, Mr. Parkinson applies to it the specific name agitans, and thus defmes . it: ' Involuntary tremulous motion, with lessened muscular...pass from a walking to a running pace: the senses and intellects being uninjured.' Sherwood and Co. 1817. Mr. P. gives a detailed history of the disease... | |
| John Elliotson - 1839 - 764 pages
...lessened muscular power, occurring in parts when they are not in action, and even when supported, together with a propensity to bend the trunk forwards, and...pass from a walking to a running pace, the senses and the intellect being injured. The muscular weakness and tremors begin generally in some one part of... | |
| Thomas Hawkes Tanner - 1858 - 418 pages
...head, and gradually extending over the whole body. Mr. Parkinson has well defined the disease thus: "Involuntary tremulous motion, with lessened muscular...when supported, with a propensity to bend the trunk forward, and to pass from a walking to a running pace; the senses and intellects being uninjured."... | |
| Thomas Hawkes Tanner - 1866 - 864 pages
...head, and gradually extending over the whole body. Mr. Parkinson has well defined the disorder thus : " Involuntary tremulous motion, with lessened muscular...when supported, with a propensity to bend the trunk forward, * Lancet, 14th October, 1854. * and to pass from a walking to a running pace ; the senses... | |
| John J. Meylor - 1866 - 290 pages
...do good. LECTURE XXXVIII. PARALYSIS AGITANS — SHAEING PALSY. — Mr. Parkinson defines this thus : "Involuntary tremulous motion, with lessened muscular...when supported ; with a propensity to bend the trunk forward, and to pass from a walking to a running pace; the senses and intellect being uninjured." The... | |
| Ralph Gooding - 1867 - 230 pages
...bowels. (9.) SHAKING PALSY, OR PARALYSIS AGITANS. Mr. Parkinson well defines this disease thus : " Involuntary tremulous motion, with lessened muscular...when supported ; with a propensity to bend the trunk forward, and to pass from a walking to a running pace ; the senses and the intellect being uninjured."... | |
| Ephraim Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 858 pages
...Paralyiie Arjitaii*, and the palsies induced by various poisons, H/iakinij Palsy has been defined as ' involuntary tremulous motion, with lessened muscular...walking to a running pace ; the senses and intellect bein" uninjured.' It is chiefly an affection of old age, ana often goes no further than to cause an... | |
| Thomas Hawkes Tanner - Drugs - 1870 - 1294 pages
...power, in parts not in action, and even when supported, with a propensity to bend the trunk forward, and to pass from a walking to a running pace ; the senses and intellect being uninjured." The disease progresses slowly. When it is far advanced the agitation is often so violent as to prevent... | |
| Medicine - 1874 - 752 pages
...well-known essay a description which will always hold its place. He defines the disease as consisting ш " involuntary tremulous motion with lessened muscular...parts not in action, and even when supported ; with * propensity to bend the trunk forward, and to pass from a walking to a running pace, the senses and... | |
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