James Parkinson and his essay on “shaking palsy”, two hundred years later

ABSTRACT In 1817, British physician James Parkinson published a 66-page document entitled “Essay on the Shaking Palsy”. This brief text became a classical and fundamental piece in the history of medicine and, in particular, of neurology. The authors of this article wish to pay tribute to this great...

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Main Authors: Leonardo Palacios-Sánchez, Martha Torres Nupan, Juan Sebastián Botero-Meneses
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2017000900671&lng=en&tlng=en
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