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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Arq Neuropsiquiatr 2017; 75(03): 192-194
DOI: 10.1590/0004-282X20170006
HISTORICAL NOTE

Parkinson’s disease – 200 years: the outstanding contribution of “Old Hubert”

Doença de Parkinson – 200 anos: a notável contribuição do “Velho Humberto”
Hélio A. G. Teive
1   Universidade Federal do Paraná, Hospital de Clínicas, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Unidade de Distúrbios do Movimento, Serviço de Neurologia, Curitiba PR, Brasil;
,
Renato P. Munhoz
2   University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital, Morton and Gloria Shulman Movement Disorders Centre and the Edmond J. Safra Program in Parkinson’s Disease, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
,
Andrew J. Lees
3   UCL and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Reta Lila Weston Institute for Neurological Studies, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK.
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ABSTRACT

Two hundred years after the publication, of “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy”, this indisputable landmark in our understanding of the nature of Parkinson’s disease still remains. What is frequently overlooked, however, is the originality of James Parkinson’s ideas about how clinical observations could be segregated into diagnostic entities. Parkinson was a surgeon apothecary with wide ranging interests outside medicine including geology and paleontology. He was also a strong campaigner for social change and a political pamphleteer, writing under the nom de plume of “Old Hubert”.

RESUMO

A publicação de James Parkinson intitulada “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy”, 200 anos atrás, é considerada uma obra prima de fundamental importância científica. James Parkinson foi um cirurgião apotecário com uma ampla faixa de interesses, além da medicina, incluindo geologia e paleontologia. Ele foi também um grande reformador social e panfletário político, que escreveu sob o pseudçnimo de “Velho Humberto”.

Parkinson’s disease - history
doença de Parkinson - história


Publikationsverlauf

Eingereicht: 30. Oktober 2016

Angenommen: 21. November 2016

Artikel online veröffentlicht:
05. September 2023

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