On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Michael Sylvester wrote:
>
> who was Parkinson?
>
Like Alice's Restaurant, you can get anything you want on the
web. Here's what it says about the eponymous Dr. Parkinson.
DR. JAMES PARKINSON
(1755 - 1828)
James Parkinson was born in London, and in his early education
studied Latin, Greek, natural philosophy and shorthand which he
considered as proper basic tools for a physician. Early on he
assisted and then took over the practice of his father in general
medicine. At the end of the 18th century, he was already
established as a social reformer and voiced his opinions openly
on war, the military establishment, on the causes for poverty, on
civil disobedience, on revolution and even on medical education.
His hobbies included geology and paleontology. He wrote a little
known medical monograph on "Observations on the Nature and Cure
of Gout" in 1805. But his "ESSAY ON THE SHAKING PALSY" published
in 1817 gained him immortality in the annals of Medicine.There is
no likeness ever found of James Parkinson.
Source:
http://www.uic.edu/depts/mcne/founders/page0071.html
-Stephen
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