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An Essay on the Shaking Palsy

by James Parkinson

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A London surgeon describes six patients — some of them men he had simply watched in the street — and assembles from them a disease nobody had named: the tremor at rest, the stooping posture, the festinating walk, the slow ruin of the limbs while, as he carefully notes, the senses and intellect remain untouched.

The short, careful paper that gave Parkinson’s disease its name. Download the free EPUB.

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