First page of James<unk> 's classical Essay on the Shaking Palsy The<unk>  expands from 1817, when British apothecary James<unk>  published An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, to modern times. Before<unk> 's descriptions, others had already described features of the<unk>  that would bear his name, while the 20th century greatly improved knowledge of the<unk>  and its treatments. PD was then known as paralysis agitans (shaking palsy in English). The term<unk> 's<unk> " was coined in 1865 by William Sanders and later popularized by French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. Paralysis
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