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James Parkinson.
English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist
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About 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.
Everything about James Parkinson →- Occupation
- physician, paleontologist, neurologist, botanist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- April 11, 1755
- Died
- December 21, 1824