a1832 W. Scott (1855) 129 His features seem writhen as by a palsy stroke.
1850 (Royal Soc.) 140 741 In hemiplegia, the ‘palsy-stroke’ transmitted from the brain along the spinal cord almost invariably affects the leg less injuriously than the arm.
1890 W. Carleton ii. 83 Is justice dull from a palsy stroke, And deaf, as well as blind?