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An Essay on the Shaking Palsy

James Parkinson

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In 1817 James Parkinson described a condition of trembling hands and a stooping, shuffling gait so precisely that the disease now bears his name. This short essay presents his defining cases and observations, the first clear medical portrait of paralysis agitans. A landmark of neurology in barely a few dozen pages. Read the essay that gave a disease its name.

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  1. 1AN ESSAY ON THE SHAKING PALSY.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4AN ESSAY ON THE SHAKING PALSY.
  5. 5CHAPTER I.
  6. 6DEFINITION—HISTORY—ILLUSTRATIVE CASES.
  7. 7SHAKING PALSY. (Paralysis Agitans.)
  8. 8HISTORY.
  9. 9Case I.
  10. 10Case II.
  11. 11Case III.
  12. 12Case IV.
  13. 13Case V.
  14. 14Case VI.
  15. 15CHAP. II.
  16. 16PATHOGNOMONIC SYMPTOMS EXAMINED—TREMOR COACTUS—SCELOTYRBE FESTINANS.
  17. 17CHAP. III.
  18. 18SHAKING PALSY DISTINGUISHED FROM OTHER DISEASES WITH WHICH IT MAY BE CONFOUNDED.

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