*Question: *What Famous People Have Parkinson's?
*Answer: **Actors* Terry Thomas, Michael J Fox and Katherine Hepburn.
*Attorney* General Janet Reno.
*Pope* John Paul II.
*Evangelist* Billy Graham.
*Country singer* Johnny Cash.
*Boxer* Muhammad Ali.
*President* Harry Truman.
*Chairman* Mao Tse Tung.
*General* MacArthur.
*Poet* Irving Layton.
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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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