title: Parkinson's disease - 200 years: the outstanding contribution of "Old Hubert".
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".
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Hospital de Clínicas, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Unidade de Distúrbios do Movimento, Serviço de Neurologia, Curitiba PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Hélio A G
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Teive
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Renato P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Munhoz
authors.affiliation: UCL and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Reta Lila Weston Institute for Neurological Studies, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK.
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lees
mesh_terms: D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D008131:London; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000266:history*