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The study of fossil organized remains has hitherto been directed too exclusively to the consideration of the specimens themselves; and hence has been considered rather as an appendix to botany and zoology, than as (what it really is) a very important branch of geological inquiry.

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The disease, respecting which the present inquiry is made, is of a nature highly afflictive... The unhappy sufferer has considered it as an evil, from the domination of which he had not prospect of escape.

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James Parkinson

James Parkinson

Born: April 11, 1755
Died: December 21, 1824 (aged 69)
Bio: James Parkinson FGS was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist, and political activist.
Known for:
  1. An Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817)
  2. Shaking Palsy Essay

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