PAL 
PAL'PABLENESS,y! Quality of being palpable 5 plain- 
nefs; grofliiefs. 
PAL'PABLY, adv. In Inch a manner as to be per¬ 
ceived by the touch. Grofsly; plainly.—Ciodius was 
acquitted by a corrupt jury, that had palpably taken 
Shares of money: before they gave up their verdidl, they 
prayed of the fenate a guard, that they might do their 
confciences juftice. Bacon. 
PALPA'TION, f. [palpatio, palpor, Lat.] The aft of 
feeling. 
PALPE'BRAS, f. [Latin.] The eyelids. 
PALPE'TER, a town of Candahar, in the Cabuliftan : 
fifty miles eaft of Ghszni. 
To PAL'PITATE, v. a. [ pa/pilo , Lat. palpiter , Fr.] To 
beat as the heart; to flutter; to go pit-a-pat. 
PALPITA'TION, f. Beating or panting : that altera¬ 
tion in the pulfe of the heart, upon frights or any other 
caufes, which makes it felt | for a natural uniform pulfe 
goes on without diftinftion.—Anxiety and palpitations of 
the heart, are a fign of weak fibres. Arluthnot on Aliments. 
—Her bo font heaves with palpitations wild. T/tomfon. 
PALREDYGUR', a town of Hindooftan, in Palnaud : 
fixteen miles weft-fouth-weft of Timerycotta. 
PA'LSCHOV, a town of Pruflia, in the province of 
Pomerelia: eleven miles north-weft of Marienburg. 
PAL'SGRAVE, f. A term ufed among the Germans, 
of the fame import with palatine. It is compounded of 
the Latin palatium, and the Dutch grave, governor; q. d. 
governor or fuperintendant of a prince’s palace. 
PAL'SGRAVE (John), a learned Englifh writer, who 
flouriftied in tlie reigns of Henry VII. and Henry VIII. 
He received his grammatical learning in London,, where 
he was born. He ftudied logic and philofophy at Cam¬ 
bridge, at which univerfity he refided till he had attained 
the degree of bachelor of arts; after which he went to 
Paris, where he fpent feveral years in the ftudy of phi- 
lofophical and other learning, took the degree of mailer 
of arts, and acquired fuch excellence in the French tongue, 
that in 1514, when a treaty of marriage was negociated 
between Louis XII. king of France, and the princefs 
Mary, After of king Henry VIII. of England, Mr. Palf- 
grave was chofen to be her tutor in that language. But, 
Louis XII. dying almoft immediately after his marriage, 
Palfgrave attended his fair pupil back to England, where 
lie taught the French language to many of the young 
nobility, obtained good church-preferment, and was ap¬ 
pointed by the king one of his chaplains in ordinary. In 
the year 3531, he fettled at Oxford for fome time; and 
the next year was incorporated mailer of arts in that uni¬ 
verfity, as he had before been in that of Paris, and a few 
days after was admitted to the degree of bachelor of 
divinity. At this time lie was highly e(teemed for his 
learning; and, what is very remarkable, though an Eng- 
lifhman, he was the firft author who reduced the French 
tongue under grammatical rules, or that had attempted 
to fix it to any kind of ftandard. This he undertook, 
and executed with great ingenuity and fuccefs, in a large 
work, entitled Bcclairciffeme.nl de la Longue Fravfoije , 
folio, Lond. 1530. to which lie has prefixed a large intro- 
duftion in Englifh. He alfo tranflated into the Englifh 
a Latin play, written by one Will. Fullonius (an author 
then living at Hagen, in Holland), entitled Acolaftus, a 
comedy, 4to. 1540. When Mr. Palfgnrve was born, or to 
what age he lived, are particulars which we have not been 
able to trace; yet, from the concurrence of various faffs, 
we cannot fuppofe him to have been much lefs than fixty 
years of age at the time of his publifhing the above-men¬ 
tioned tranflation. 
PALSGRE'BEN, a town of Pruflia, in the province of 
Oberland : five miles foutli of Ofterrod. 
PAL'S I CAL, adj. [from palfy .] Afflidfed with the 
pally; paralytic. 
PAL'SIED, adj. Difeafed with the palfy.—Though fne 
breathes yet in a few pious peaceful fouls, yet, like a 
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palfied perfon, fhe fcarce moves a limb. Decay of Chr. 
Piety. 
Let not old age long ftretch his palfy'd hand ; 
Thofe who give late are importun’d each day. Gay. 
PAL'SY, f. paralyjis, Lat. thence paralyfy, paraljy , 
palafy, palfy .’] A privation of motion or feeling, or both, 
proceeding from fome caufe below the cerebellum, joined 
with a coldnefs, flaccidity, and at laft wafting of the parts. 
Tf this privation be in all the lower extremities, it is 
called a paraplegia ; if in one fide only, a hemiplegia ; if in 
fome parts only of one fide, a parejis. —There is a three¬ 
fold divifion of a palfy ; a privation of motion, fen fiction 
remaining; a privation of fenfation, motion remaining; 
and laftly, a privation of both together. Quincy. —A palfy 
may as,.well (hake an oak, as (hake the delight of con- 
fcience. South. 
We (hall fpeak very briefly of the three different kinds 
or fpecies of palfy, as we mull in fome degree go over the 
fame ground in the article Pathology. 
1. Hemitlegia. —The palfy which is moft frequently 
feen, and which confifts in the lofs or diminution of the 
power of motion of one fide of the body, is fometimes the 
confequence of an attack of apoplexy, where that has not 
proved fatal; hut it more commonly occurs inftanta- 
neoufly, and without any aftual apopleftic attack. In 
the latter cafe, however, the difeafe differs from the 
former only in the degree of injury which has taken place 
in the brain, the preffure upon that organ being more 
partial than in apoplexy. 
The fymptoms of hemiplegia are diftinft and obvious, 
and fcarcely liable to be confounded with thofe of any 
other difeafe. The moft manifeft fymptom is the want 
of command over the limbs of the fide affected, which 
either remain totally immovable by the will of the patient, 
or are poflefied of fo little power, that the arm hangs 
dangling by the fide, and the leg is dragged along the 
ground, rather than elevated, in attempting to walk, and 
vibrates from want of firmnefs whenever the foot is 
planted on the ground. At the fame time, the limbs 
are perfectly flexible by any external impulfe, to which 
they offer no refiftance. As the mufcles of one fide of 
the head are alfo paralyfed, the features, efpecially the 
mouth, are commonly drawn away, giving a diftorted 
appearance to the countenance; for, as the paralyfed muf¬ 
cles offer no refiftance, fo the conftant tendency to con- 
tradlion in the healthy mufcles of the oppofite fide necef- 
farily operates in drawing the whole towards themfelves. 
The face is contrasted, therefore, not on the palfied, but 
on the found, fide. The fame palfied condition exifts 
alfo in one-half of the tongue, which, if it be attempted 
to be protruded, is fhown in a curved ftate, the point 
always turning towards the angle of the mouth on the 
paralytic fide. This palfied ftate of the tongue and lips, 
and other organs fubfervient to the voice, is neceffarily 
the caufe of indiftinft articulation ; fo that various degrees 
of defeft of fpeech accompany hemiplegia. From the 
morbid ftate of the brain, which gives rife to palfy, the 
functions of the mind are frequently more or lefs injured 5 
the memory efpecially is liable to be impaired, and, in 
many cafes, every faculty is fo debilitated, that a con- 
fiderable degree of fatuity or childifh imbecility is the 
confequence. Indeed, there are perhaps few inftances, 
in which the intellectual functions efcape entirely unim¬ 
paired from an attack of hemiplegia : fo that, where the 
ftroke of palfy has been fevere, few perfons are left in a 
condition fitted for the aftive and important duties of 
life. 
The prognofis is generally unfavourable in hemiplegia, 
more efpecially when the patient is advanced in life, or 
debilitated in conftitution, or has been in habits of in¬ 
temperance. For, under fuch circumftances, the fyftem 
feldom recovers its powers ; and the patient remains enei> 
vated both in mind and body, and generally incapable of 
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