• Monday, October 06th, 2008
In 1817 James Parkinson, an English surgeon,published a classic, short book entitled “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy.”
Parkinson was the first to recognize this pattern of abnormalities in six patients as a distinct condition.For this important achievement, the disease was eventually named for him. In the book , Parkinson recognized prominent features of this disease:
“Involuntary tremulous motion, with lessened muscular power, in parts of the body not in action and even when supported; with a propensity to bend the trunk forwards, and to pass from a walking to a running pace: the senses and intellects being uninjured.”
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