If Leonardo had PD at least we'e in good
company,
ray
Rayilyn Brown
Board Member AZNPF
Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation
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> very very interesting
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>> 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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