James Parkinson

James Parkinson
James Parkinson

James Parkinson FGS 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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Male
Date of Birth
April 11st, 1755
Age
270
Birth Place
United Kingdom, England
Date of Death
December 21st, 1824
Died Aged
69
Star Sign
Aries
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