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An Essay on the Shaking Palsy

James Parkinson

FormatEbook
Published2007
Words12,219
LanguageEnglish
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James Parkinson

James Parkinson

James Parkinson was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist, and political activist. He is best known for his 1817 work An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, in which he was the first to describe "paralysis agitans", a condition that was later renamed Parkinson's disease by Jean-Martin Charcot.

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