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Essay on the Shaking Palsy, by James Parkinson
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Title: An Essay on the Shaking Palsy
Author: James Parkinson
Release Date: December 9, 2007 [EBook #23777]
Language: English
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AN ESSAY ON THE SHAKING PALSY.
BY
JAMES PARKINSON,
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WHITTINGHAM AND ROWLAND,
Goswell Street,
FOR SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES,
PATERNOSTER ROW.
1817.
PREFACE.
The advantages which have been derived from the caution with which hypothetical statements are admitted, are in no instance more obvious than in those sciences which more particularly belong to the healing art. It therefore is necessary, that some conciliatory explanation should be offered for the present publication: in which, it is acknowledged, that mere conjecture takes the place of experiment; and, that analogy is the substitute for anatomical examination, the only sure foundation for pathological knowledge.
When, however, the nature of the subject, and the circumstances under which it has been he