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COURTLAND H. DAVIS, Jr., M.D.; E. CHARLES KUNKLE, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1951;87(6):808-816.

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The affection in question consists of a fine tremor, constantly present in typical cases during waking hours, voluntarily controlled for a brief time, affecting nearly all the voluntary muscles, chronic, beginning at very early life, not progressive, not shortening life, not accompanied with paralysis, or any other disturbances of nervous function. It resembles to some extent the tremor of paralysis agitans, still more a simple neurasthenic tremor. A most striking clinical feature is its marked hereditary or family type, and its transmission along with other nervous diseases.—C. L. Dana.

THUS in 1887 did Dana¹ definitively describe one common form of the syndrome which has variously been termed hereditary, familial, congenital, infantile, juvenile, essential, idiopathic, presenile or senile tremor.

Except for an isolated case report by Mitchell² in 1903, and for brief discussions in neurological texts, the English literature has been silent on this subject until the recent exhaustive . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
DURHAM, N.C.

From the Department of Medicine (Neurology) of Duke University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Dr. Davis is Postdoctorate Research Fellow of the National Institutes of Health.

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