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James Parkinson: A Biographical Overview
James Parkinson was born on April 11th, 1755, at No. 1 Hoxton Square in the parish of St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch, in the Hundred of Ossulstone in the county of Middlesex. The baptismal register of the parish ch...
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Medical Literature
James Parkinson’s medical writings were mainly articles in the medical press, and tracts, but he did publish another medical monograph besides his “Essays on the Shaking Palsy”, viz. Observations on the Nature an...
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The Parish Doctor
As a result of his association with the unpopular reform societies, Parkinson suffered greatly from social and professional ostracism. At the outbreak of the war with France in 1793, he had indicated that he w...
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London in 1800
The place where James Parkinson was born, Hoxton, was little more than a village, half a mile from one of the northern gates of the City of London. In the latter half of the 18th century it had two main thorou...
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The Popular Medical Writer
Medical Admonitions was the title of a book on domestic medicine written by James Parkinson and first published in 1799. An octavo-sized book divided into two parts which are described as volumes, ...
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Medical and Surgical Cases
Throughout his life, Parkinson reported interesting, unusual, or dramatic cases to medical societies or journals, the earliest of which are contained in the annual reports of the Royal Humane Society. His fath...
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James Parkinson’s Chemical Pocket Book
At the end of the 18th century there were several good textbooks of chemistry available to English readers, though most of them were translations of French works. The principal ones were the English translatio...
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The Pop-Gun Plot
The so-called Pop-Gun Plot involved five members of the London Corresponding Society: John Smith, a bookseller, of Portsmouth Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields; George Higgins, a chemist’s shopman, of Fleet Market,...
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The Madhouse Doctor
James Parkinson had a wide and varied contact with lunacy. For at least 30 years he had been the visiting doctor of a madhouse at Hoxton, kept by John Burrows, and after his death by his widow, Mrs. Ester Burr...
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A Discussion of Parkinson’s Essay on the Shaking Palsy
James Parkinson’s tract: An Essay on the Shaking Palsy (Parkinson, 1817), has deservedly become a medical classic. Copies of the original edition of 1817 are now rare; but of all his writings it is this short wor...
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The Political Radical
Since the sole object of the London Corresponding Society was to obtain reform of the parliamentary representation of the people, which had in turn helped lay the foundations of democracy in Great Britain, Jam...
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Mr. Parkinson, the Palaeontologist
To James Parkinson, fame came in the medical world posthumously by his identification of the disease which he termed “The Shaking Palsy,” paralysis agitans. Fame came to him in his lifetime, however, in that b...
