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    An Essay on the Shaking Palsy
    An Essay on the Shaking Palsy
    An Essay on the Shaking Palsy
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    An Essay on the Shaking Palsy

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 26, 2019
    ISBN4057664626851
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      An Essay on the Shaking Palsy - James Parkinson

      James Parkinson

      An Essay on the Shaking Palsy

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664626851

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE.

      AN ESSAY ON THE SHAKING PALSY.

      CHAPTER I.

      DEFINITION—HISTORY—ILLUSTRATIVE CASES.

      CHAP. II.

      PATHOGNOMONIC SYMPTOMS EXAMINED— TREMOR COACTUS — SCELOTYRBE FESTINANS .

      CHAP. III.

      SHAKING PALSY DISTINGUISHED FROM OTHER DISEASES WITH WHICH IT MAY BE CONFOUNDED.

      CHAP. IV.

      PROXIMATE CAUSE—REMOTE CAUSES—ILLUSTRATIVE CASES.

      CHAP. V.

      CONSIDERATIONS RESPECTING THE MEANS OF CURE.

      PREFACE.

      Table of Contents

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      advantages which have been derived from the caution with which hypothetical statements are admitted, are in no instance more obvious than in those sciences which more particularly belong to the healing art. It therefore is necessary, that some conciliatory explanation should be offered for the present publication: in which, it is acknowledged, that mere conjecture takes the place of experiment; and, that analogy is the substitute for anatomical examination, the only sure foundation for pathological knowledge.

      When, however, the nature of the subject, and the circumstances under which it has been here taken up, are considered, it is hoped that the offering of the following pages to the attention of the medical public, will not be severely censured. 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 diseases 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 stages of its progress. By these repeated observations, he hoped that he had been led to a probable conjecture as to the nature of the malady, and that analogy had suggested such means as might be productive of relief, and perhaps even of cure, if employed before the disease had been too long established. He therefore considered it to be a duty to submit his opinions to the examination of others, even in their present state of immaturity and imperfection.

      To delay their publication did not, indeed, appear to be warrantable. The disease had escaped particular notice; and the task of ascertaining its nature and cause by anatomical investigation, did not seem likely to be taken up by those who, from their abilities and opportunities, were most likely to accomplish it. That these friends to humanity and medical science, who have already unveiled to us many of the morbid processes by which health and life is abridged, might be excited to extend their researches to this malady, was much desired; and it was hoped, that this might be procured by the publication of these remarks.

      Should the necessary information be thus obtained, the writer will repine at no censure which the precipitate publication of mere conjectural suggestions may incur; but shall think himself fully rewarded by having excited the attention of those, who may point out the most appropriate means of relieving a tedious and most distressing malady.

      AN

      ESSAY

      ON THE

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