ken aidekman wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can find an image, engraving, etc. of Dr. James Parkinson?
Ken,
According to this web site - no likeness has ever been found.
Judith
http://www.uic.edu/depts/mcne/founders/page0071.html
DR. JAMES PARKINSON (1755 - 1828)
James Parkinson was born in London, and in his early
education studied Latin, Greek, natural philosophy and
shorthand which he considered as proper basic tools for a
physician. Early on he assisted and then took over the
practice of his father in general medicine. At the end of
the 18th century, he was already established as a social
reformer and voiced his opinions openly on war, the
military establishment, on the causes for poverty, on
civil disobedience, on revolution and even on medical
education. His hobbies included geology and paleontology.
He wrote a little known medical monograph on
"Observations on the Nature and Cure of Gout" in 1805.
But his "ESSAY ON THE SHAKING PALSY" published in 1817
gained him immortality in the annals of Medicine.There is
no likeness ever found of James Parkinson.
--
Judith Richards, London, Ontario, Canada
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