The Legend: James Parkinson

James Parkinson who worked as a medical surgeon in London was the first to connect the dots when confronted with a handful of patients with similar involuntary tremors and symptoms of muscle weakness. He referred to the disease that would later bear his name as paralysis agitans, or shaking palsy. This shaking palsy was renamed as “Parkinson’s Disease” in his honour after his death. He accurately gave description of the symptoms, and the disease in all its different stages. Parkinson’s work and research was a significant contributor in today’s clinical management of Parkinson’s disease.