Name to remember. Part 1, James Parkinson.

James Parkinson, born in 1755, was a surgeon and apothecary. In essays published in 1817, Parkinson gave the first graphic description of the symptoms of "shaking palsy", as Parkinson's disease was then called. Professor William Bynum, Professor of the History of Modern Medicine at the Wellcome Institute, and Professor Adrian Williams, Neurologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, talk about Parkinson's life and work. It was Jean Charcot, the French neurologist, who first applied the name Parkinson's disease to shaking palsy, sixty years after Parkinson published his essay.