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James Parkinson

James Parkinson was born on April 11, 1755. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.

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About James Parkinson

James Parkinson (11 April 1755 – 21 December 1824) 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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