James Parkinson’s Essay on the Shaking Palsy.
An essay on the shaking palsy by Parkinson, James, 1817, Printed by Whittingham and Rowland for Sherwood, Neely and Jones edition, in English.
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Careful reading of “An Essay of the Shaking Palsy” clearly indicates that Parkinson considered a particular form of weakness to be an integral part of the disease. He also described, but with less emphasis, symptoms such as drooling of saliva and constipation, and considered that rheumatic pain could precede and even cause the malady. Nosography reflects the history of medicine, and what.
English: First page of James Parkinson's landmark 1817 work, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, providing the first description of the disease that would bear his name. This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version.
The disease, respecting which the present inquiry is made, is of a nature highly afflictive. Notwithstanding which, it has not yet obtained a place in the classification of nosologists; some have regarded its characteristic symptoms as distinct and different diseases, and others have given its name to disease differing essentially from it; whilst the unhappy sufferer has considered it as an.
The paper entitled “Essay on the Shaking Palsy”, published in 1817, is a 66-page text divided into five chapters in which it defines the condition, its pathognomonic characteristics, the differential diagnosis, the etiology and the treatment. It is based on his experience with six patients over several years. The eponymous title for this condition was given in 1860 at the proposal of Jean.
English: First page of James Parkinson's landmark 1817 work, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, providing the first description of the disease that would bear his name.