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The Amazing Story of the Photograph of the Doctor Who Discovered Parkinson’s Disease

This is not a photograph of James Parkinson, who first described Parkinson’s disease

21 December 200 years ago, James Parkinson, the great neurologist and archaeologist, passed away. However, this is not that James Parkinson. This is not him either. And this is definitely not him.

James Parkinson was born and lived his entire life in a small house belonging to his father, who was also a doctor. There was a pharmacy downstairs, and they lived above it.

Now the house has been demolished, and another stands in its place. The first camera was invented a few years after his death. Therefore, we still do not know what he looked like.

A caricature from 1789 has been preserved, presumably depicting Dr. Parkinson. Most often, the lighthouse keeper on the island of Tuscany, James Cumine Parkinson, is mistaken for Dr. James Parkinson.

Here’s the amazing story of the first discoverer of Parkinson’s disease

Rezida Galimova

The first female neurosurgeon in MRgFUS, one of the founders of the first non-invasive ultrasound tremor neurosurgery center in Russia, Doctor of Medical Sciences, MBA (John Hopkins University), Associate Professor of the Department of Neurosurgery at BSMU.

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