title: James Parkinson: Parkinson's disease.
abstract: Parkinson's disease is a condition that anyone with a modicum of medical knowledge can recognise in the street--as indeed how it was studied by James Parkinson himself. Its three characteristic features are: 1. Increase in the tone of the voluntary muscles (rigidity). 2. Slowness of movement (bradykinesis). 3. Tremor (the characteristic 'pill rolling' movements of the fingers).
authors: Department of Anatomy, University of London, Guy's Campus, London, SE1 1UL.
authors: Harold
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authors: Ellis
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000266:history*