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James Parkinson was born in Shoreditch, London, England on April 11, 1755. He was the son of John Parkinson, an apothecary and surgeon practising in Hoxton Square in London.
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James Parkinson was born in Shoreditch, London, England on April 11, 1755. He was the son of John Parkinson, an apothecary and surgeon practising in Hoxton Square in London.
He was educated for the medical profession, and practised in Hoxton, from about the year 1785.
He was author of numerous chemical and medical books, the most important of which were Organic Remains of a Former World (3 vols. , 1804, 1808, 1811), and Outlines of Oryctology (1822). Between 1799 and 1807 he published several medical works, including a work on gout in 1805. He was also responsible for early writings on ruptured appendix.
Parkinson was the first person to systematically describe six individuals with symptoms of the disease that bears his name.
Parkinson died in London, on the 21st of December 1824.
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In addition to his flourishing medical practice, Parkinson had an avid interest in politics of the day. He was a strong advocate for the under-privileged, and an outspoken critic of the Pitt government. His early career was marked by his being involved in a variety of social and revolutionary causes. Parkinson called for representation of the people in the House of Commons, the institution of annual parliaments, and universal suffrage. He was a member of several secret political societies, including the London Corresponding Society and the Society of Constitutional Information.
Parkinson belonged to a school of thought, catastrophism, that concerned itself with the belief that the Earth's geology and biosphere were shaped by recent large-scale cataclysms. He cited the Noachian deluge of Genesis as an example, and he firmly believed that creation and extinction were processes guided by the hand of God. His view on Creation was that each 'day' was actually a much longer period, that lasted perhaps tens of thousands of years in length.
He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and one of the original members of the Geological Society of London (1807).
He was a member of the London Corresponding Society and the Society of Constitutional Information.
On 21 May 1783, he married Mary Dale, with whom he subsequently had eight children; two did not survive past childhood.
