TY - JOUR T1 - AN essay on the shaking palsy AU - Parkinson J Y1 - 1969/04/01 N1 - 10.1001/archneur.1969.00480100117017 JO - Archives of Neurology SP - 441 EP - 445 VL - 20 IS - 4 N2 - .... The disease, respecting which the present inquiry is made, is of a nature highly afflictive. Notwithstanding which, it has not yet obtained a place in the classification of nosologists; some have regarded its characteristic symptoms as distinct and different diseases, and others have given its name to disease differing essentially from it; whilst the unhappy sufferer has considered it as an evil, from the domination of which he had no prospect of escape.The disease is of long duration: to connect, therefore, the symptoms which occur in its later stages with those which mark its commencement, requires a continuance of observation of the same case, or at least a correct history of its symptoms, even for several years. Of both these advantages the writer has had the opportunities of availing himself; and has hence been led particularly to observe several other cases in which the disease existed in different SN - 0003-9942 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archneur.1969.00480100117017 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1969.00480100117017 ER -