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Portrait of 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 would later be renamed Parkinson's disease by Jean-Martin Charcot.

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An Essay on the Shaking Palsy

"An Essay on the Shaking Palsy" by James Parkinson is a scientific publication written in the early 19th century. This pioneering work is primarily fo...

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