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  • Propè ad vallis medium sub vna rupium, apparet omni tempore visibiliter integrum ac maximum caput daemonis vsque ad humeros tantùm, cuius speciem præ horrore nullus pleno intuitu humanus audet diu oculus sustinere: nam respicientes contrà aspicit truculentèr, agitans oculos minacitèr, tanquam ex palpebris eiecturus (quæ et scintillant) flammas in altum.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Prop� ad vallis medium sub vna rupium, apparet omni tempore visibiliter integrum ac maximum caput daemonis vsque ad humeros tant鵰, cuius speciem pr� horrore nullus pleno intuitu humanus audet diu oculus sustinere: nam respicientes contr� aspicit truculent鑢, agitans oculos minacit鑢, tanquam ex palpebris eiecturus (qu� et scintillant) flammas in altum.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Paralysis agitans was first clinically described in 1817 by an English physician named James Parkinson; it is also commonly known as Parkinson's disease.

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • The facial expression becomes comparatively unchanging and masklike; walking becomes stiff, and the arms remain motionless instead of swinging naturally with the stride, This combination of too little movement in arms and face and too much movement in head and hands receives the self-contradictory name of paralysis agitans (aj'ih-tans; "to move" L).

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • Let nobody suppose for a moment that this was a case of paralysis agitans, or St. Vitus 'Dance.

    The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

  • Panaque Siluanumque senem Nymphasque sorores. illum non populi fasces, non purpura regum flexit et infidos agitans discordia fratres, aut coniurato descendens Dacus ab Histro, 40 non res Romanae perituraque regna; neque ille aut doluit miserans inopem aut inuidit habenti. quos rami fructus, quos ipsa uolentia rura sponte tulere sua, carpsit, nec ferrea iura insanumque forum aut populi tabularia uidit.

    'God made the country but man made the town' Vergil 1912

  • You seem perturbed, anxious, with slight symptoms of _paralysis agitans_.

    Blacksheep! Blacksheep! Meredith Nicholson 1906

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

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • This case is interesting from the novel mode of death, the perfect paralysis of the arm, paralysis agitans of the body (occurring as hemorrhage from the ear came on, and subsiding with it), and extensive caries of the petrous bone, without sensation of pain or any indicative symptoms.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Paralysis agitans (shaking palsy), with its coarse tremor, peculiar facies, immobility, shuffling gait, the ` bread-crumbling 'attitude of the fingers, and deliberate speech, would be readily eliminated even by a novice.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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