(Noun)

Definition: medical : a medical condition that causes your body or part of your body to shake uncontrollably

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palsied

Whitehead’s “City Limits”:” my first city memory is of looking out a subway window as the train erupted from the tunnel on the way to 125th Street and palsied up onto the elevated tracks.”

The new view of New York City surprise him, he cannot control himself. (he can only refresh back his memory in his mind)