Thursday, April 11th is World Parkinson’s Day

Components of possible Parkinson’s disease are available in the early documents, but the first clear medical description was written in 1817 by James Parkinson. Fragments of the description of Parkinsonism can be found in early descriptions such as Sylvius de la Boe’s description of rest tremor in 1680, and Sauvage’s description of festination in 1768.Earlier Indian and Chinese documents in 1000…