There's also a rather high level of eccentricity among this lot....didn't Da
Vinci notice it was a bit soon for designing helicopters ?
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> *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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