very very interesting
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From: "rayilynlee" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 5:34 PM
Subject: Leonardo discribes PD
> PARKINSON'S DISEASE NEWS
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> 2nd May 2008 - History
> Leonardo da Vinci's descriptions of Parkinson's disease
> The Italian artist, engineer and scientist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
> also studied anatomy, physiology and medicine. Leonardo da Vinci kept
> secret notebooks in which he wrote and sketched his ideas and
> observations. So keen was he to study the human body that he went out at
> night to dissect human corpses. For more information go to Leonardo da
> Vinci. He saw people whose symptoms coincided with the tremors seen in
> Parkinson's Disease. Leonardo wrote in his notebooks that "you will
> see.....those who.....move their trembling parts, such as their heads or
> hands without permission of the soul; (the) soul with all its forces
> cannot prevent these parts from trembling." In a translatiom of Da Vinci's
> notebooks "The movements of paralytics of those benumbed by cold, whose
> head and members move without control of the soul, who cannot stop the
> movements." The combination of difficulty with voluntary movement
> ("paraletici") and tremor ("tremanti') leave little doubt of the diagnosis
> of Parkinson's Disease. At the end of his life Leonardo was unable to
> paint due to the loss of control of movement in his hands. It has been
> suggested that, by then, Leonardo had Parkinson's Disease. Due to most of
> his notebooks remaining secret for centuries, Leonardo did not receive any
> credit for contributing to the recognition of Parkinson's Disease.
>
> Rayilyn Brown
> Board Member AZNPF
> Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation
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