Died 1824-12-21.
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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.
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science · English surgeon (1755–1824) · physician · paleontologist · neurologist · botanist · politician · pharmacist · surgeon · also James Parkinson, J.Parkinson, Parkinson, Dr. James Parkinson, Old Hubert
Born 11 April 1755 · Died 21 December 1824 · Q336489
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1822· 1 entry
Parkinson published the shorter "Outlines of Oryctology: an Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic Remains, especially of those found in British Strata"
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1812· 1 entry
Parkinson assisted his son with the first described case of appendicitis in English, and the first instance in which perforation was shown to be the cause of death
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1804· 1 entry
The first volume of his Organic Remains of a Former World was published
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1755· 1 entry
Born 1755-04-11.
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