PALSY

Or paralysis, strikes sometimes one side or portion of the body, and sometimes the whole; affecting the power of motion, or the power of sensation, or both. It is one of the least curable of diseases; but the Savior healed it with a word, Mt 4:24; 12:10; Mr 2:3-12. The "withered hand," Mr 3:1, was probably an effect of the palsy. There is also a palsy of the soul, which the Great Physician can heal, and he alone.

---

Palsy. Palsy
A shorter form of “paralysis.” Many persons thus afflicted were cured by our Lord (Matt. 4:24; 8:5-13; 9:2-7; Mark 2:3-11; Luke 7:2-10; John 5:5-7) and the apostles (Acts 8:7; 9:33, 34).

---

PALSY. → See PARALYSIS

---

palsy. Palsy, n. a privation of the power of action

---

Pal″sy (?), n.; pl. Palsies (#). [[OE. palesie, parlesy, OF. paralesie, F. paralysie, L. paralysis. See Paralysis.]] (Med.) Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis. “One sick of the palsy.” Mark ii. 3. Bell's palsy, paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; — so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it. — Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer. — Shaking palsy, paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait.