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Lewis, a research scholar at the university of bristol, lifts from the shadows of history the fascinating story of james parkinson 17551824, the enlightenmentage surgeonapothecary who first described the neurodegenerative condition that now bears his name. 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 would later be renamed parkinsons disease by jeanmartin charcot. Parkinson s disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 60,000. Parkinsons disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the uk alone, and yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after.
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Celebrating world parkinson day with the enlightened mr. Parkinson the pioneering life of a forgotten surgeon cherry lewis. He was the son of john parkinson, an apothecary and surgeon practising in hoxton square in london, and the oldest of five siblings, including his brother william and his sister mary sedgwick. What an amazing man was mr parkinson he worked as an apothecary and a surgeon but he also found time to campaign about social injustice, collect fossils and write books on medicine, fossils and chemistry. My sister was diagnosed with parkinsons disease when she was fifty years old, and each year she struggles with the onset of even more debilitating effects.
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