biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1755–1824)
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| biography:
| British physician and amateur palaeontologist. In 1817 he gave the first description of paralysis agitans, or Parkinson's disease. He had already described appendicitis and perforation in 1812, and was the first to recognize the latter condition as a cause of death. |
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