James Parkinson
Physician
1755 – 1824
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Who was James Parkinson?
James Parkinson FGS was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist. He is most famous 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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- Born
- Apr 11, 1755
Shoreditch - Parents
- Spouses
- Mary Dale
(1783/05/21 - 1824/12/21)
- Mary Dale
- Ethnicity
- White British
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry
- Died
- Dec 21, 1824
London - Resting place
- St Leonard's, Shoreditch
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on July 23, 2013
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