ABSTRACT
The following description is of case VI from James Parkinson’s 1817 essay on paralysis agitans (1):
About a year since, on waking at night, he found that he had nearly lost the use of the right side, and that his face was much drawn to the left side. His medical attendant saw him the following day, when he found him languid, with a small and quick pulse and without pain in the head or disposition of sleep. Nothing more therefore was done . . . and in about a fortnight the limbs had entirely recovered from their palsied state. During the time of their having remained in this state, neither the arm nor the leg of the paralytic side was in the least affected with the tremulous agitation; but as the paralyzed state was recovered, the shaking returned.
