Today, video is the ideal way to record the clinical features of Parkinson's disease; it is widely used as a teaching aid and to discuss difficult cases. From the earliest clinical reports, visual images have characterised medical accounts of Parkinson's disease. What are the iconographic landmarks of this visually so striking disease? The modern history of Parkinson's disease begins with an essay, published by James Parkinson in London in 1817 Although several of his other works are embellished with frontispiece, prints, woodcuts, and engravings, his 1817 essay does not include images.
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