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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.

In the old days when malaria was a common diagnosis for many different conditions, paralysis agitans apparently followed malaria so often that there was thought to be some connection between the two diseases.

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.