clinical study of 40 cases of Parkinson's disease

ABSTRACT

Parkinson's disease is an important and common neurological disorder. The concept of Parkinson's disease [PD] as a specific morbid entity is historically a clinical one. In 1817, Dr James Parkinson published an essay on "the shaking palsy". Before 1817 the term shaking palsy had been vaguely employed by medical practitioners to describe a mass of clinically undifferentiated illnesses in which tremor were a prominent symptom. It was Parkinson who accurately delineated the disease. Although he omitted the characteristic mask like face, he defined the tremor and other main features including weakness rigidity and shuffling gait. The eponymic title "Parkinson's disease" by which we know the condition today did not come into use until the end of 19[th] century and was first so used by the celebrated French neurologist Charcot