James Parkinson
✓ Source-basedrisingEnglish surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist
DoctorsLived 1755 to 1824 · aged 69
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Languages29
Peak1800s
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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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Parkinson's home and office at 1 Hoxton Square
First page of Parkinson's classical essay on shaking palsy
Megatherium fossil illustrated in Parkinson's Organic Remains of a Former World
Fossilized turtle Puppigerus found in the London Clay on the Isle of Sheppey and named for Parkinson, collection Teylers Museum, Haarlem, NetherlandsDoctors born in the 1750s 6
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Lived 1755 to 1824 · aged 69
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