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Researchers don't know exactly when Parkinson's disease was first "discovered," but there is evidence that medical scientists have been treating Parkinson's for thousands of years.

We know a lot more about Parkinson's disease now than when it was first described in medical literature in 1817 by James Parkinson

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Parkinson's disease has been around for at least several thousand years. However, the first time that it was recognized as a disease was in 1817, by the disease's namesake James Parkinson.

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James Parkinson, an English doctor, wrote the first description in An Essay on the Shaking Palsy in 1817.

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In 1817 James Parkinson, an English doctor, published an essay reporting six cases of what, today, is known as Parkinson's disease.

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