James Parkinson

James Parkinson ( born April 11, 1755 in Hoxton ( London), † December 21, 1824 in London) was a British physician, pharmacist and paleontologist. According to him, the Parkinson's disease was named.

Life

Born as the eldest of three children of pharmacist and surgeon John Parkinson and his wife Mary Parkinson (nee Dale) he studied medicine from 1776 to 1784 in the London Hospital, where Parkinson already cooperated while studying in the practice of his father. After his death in 1784, he took over his practice, but also continue to hear lectures, among others, John Hunter ( 1728-1793 ), one of the most famous surgeons of his time.

Under the pseudonym " Old Hubert" Parkinson published around the time of the French Revolution anti-royalist pamphlets and became a member of the " Society for Constitutional Information " and the " London Corresponding Society United for the Reform of Parliamentary Representation " - both political associations, for among other things a basic control and prison reform entered.

1799 and 1800 published Parkinson then equal to five more or less extensive medical works. 1799 under the title Medical Admonitions a 500 -page " book house ", which was directed with health advice to a medical lay audience. Also in 1799 under the title Chemical Pocket -Book, a compendium of the dominant schools of thought in the field of chemistry. 1800 appeared a more comprehensible and condensed to 400 pages version of the Medical Admonitions under the title The Villager 's Friend and Physician. In the same year published the book Dangerous Sports, a children's book that warns against risks of accident as well as The Hospital Pupil, a critical examination of that practical training of medical professionals.

His most famous medical publication but the work An Essay on the Shaking Palsy is ( A Treatise on the Shaking Palsy ) of 1817, in Parkinson first described the symptoms of neurological disease later named after him. Parkinson himself called it because of the eye-catching in many patients resting tremor as " shaking palsy " ( palsy ). The term "Parkinson 's disease " (also called " Parkinson's disease " " Parkinson's disease " or " parkinsonism ") was probably first used in 1884 by the French psychiatrist Jean -Martin Charcot ( 1825-1893 ).

In addition to his medical work, Parkinson operated as a geologist and paleontologist. He built an extensive mineral and fossil collection, which became famous beyond the borders of England also and 1804-1811 published a three-volume work entitled Organic Remains of a Former World and 1822 paleontological textbook entitled Outlines of Oryctology.

Parkinson was buried on December 29, 1824 in the cemetery of St. Leonard 's Church in London's Shoreditch, where today a memorial stone at him.

Works

  • Medical Admonitions, with observations on the excessive indulgence of children. 2nd. Ed. 2 vols London 1799.
  • The Chemical Pocket -Book, or Memoranda Chemica. London 1799.
  • The Hospital Pupil, or An essay Intended to Facilitate the Study of Medicine and Surgerey. In four letters. London in 1800.
  • Dangerous Sports. London in 1800.
  • Hints for the Improvement of trusses. London 1802.
  • Organic Remains of a Former World. 3 vol London from 1804 to 1811.
  • Observations on the Nature and Cure of Gout. London 1805.
  • Mad- Houses. Observations on the Act for Regulating Mad- houses and a correction of the statements of the case of Benjamin Elliott, convicted of illegally confining Mary Daintree: with Remarks Addressed to the friends of insane persons. London 1811.
  • An essay on the shaking palsy (bilingual edition, dt / engl, Norderstedt 2009;. . ISBN 978-3-8370-2207-0 )
  • An Essay on the Shaking Palsy. . London 1817 ( reprint in: Critchley 1955, 145-218; German translation A Treatise on the Shaking Palsy by Ute Schliemann, as an appendix to Pies in 1988. )
  • Outlines of Oryctology. London 1822.

About James Parkinson

  • Critchley, M. ( 1955): James Parkinson ( 1755-1824 ). A bicentenary volume of papers dealing with Parkinson 's Disease, Incorporating the original ' Essay on the Shaking Palsy '. London.
  • Pies, Norbert J. (1988 ): James Parkinson ( 1755-1824 ): Physician - Pharmacist - Paleontologist - social reformer. Frankfurt q.s.: Merz.
  • Sacks, Oliver (1991 ): Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism of. In trans. (1991 ): Awakenings - Awakenings. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 40-50.

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  • Born in 1755
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