James Parkinson
Doctor
Notable Achievement
Parkinson's disease discoverer
Biography
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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Birthday Date
James Parkinson was born on April 11