Reviews and Notes: Neurology: Neurology

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Literature of Medicine1 January 1995Reviews and Notes: Neurology: NeurologyH. Kenneth Walker, MDH. Kenneth Walker, MDAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-122-1-199501010-00041 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail NeurologyFifth edition. Howard Weiner and Lawrence Levitt. House Officer Series. 236 pages. Baltimore, Maryland: Williams & Wilkins; 1994. $20.00.James Parkinson wrote Essay on the Shaking Palsy in 1817. He did not examine his patients. He did not even describe the arresting rigidity of the disease, leaving this for Charcot to delineate 60 years later. The neurologic examination probably was started by Charles Bell, who published six collected papers in 1830 under the title The Nervous System of the Human Body. His hands were his most useful instrument: “When we held up the eye-lid, and threatened to touch the ... Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 January 1995Volume 122, Issue 1Page: 79 Issue Published: 1 January 1995 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1995 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...