Word: parkinson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announcement in itself was without precedent. Spaniards had long been forbidden even to speculate publicly about the timing of el Caudillo's death. Although he was known to suffer from Parkinson's disease, so far as Spanish officialdom was concerned, the only times he had ever been indisposed were when he had a couple of teeth extracted and when he suffered a gunshot wound in the hand while hunting. Last week the government rushed out photographs showing the diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) and frail general walking into the hospital without assistance, and doctors said his condition...
Searching over the records, two Boston researchers, Dr. David C. Poskanzer and the late Dr. Robert S. Schwab, found that the number of Parkinson's patients diagnosed at Massachusetts General Hospital increased exponentially from the 1920s into the 1960s. Then they noticed something else: with each passing year, the average age of the new patients increased by a year...
...Parkinson's disease dying out? The "shaking palsy" that Dr. James Parkinson, a London physician, distinguished in 1817 was relatively uncommon until the 1930s, when this ancient nervous disorder inexplicably erupted to nearly epidemic proportions. Now new cases of Parkinsonism are appearing less frequently, prompting a debate as to whether this scourge of the mid-20th century may in fact be disappearing...
...Parkinson's disease has always been wreathed in mystery. For centuries nothing was known of its causes, though it was noted that in many cases it followed an attack of encephalitis, inflammation of the brain. Then, from 1916 to 1926, there came a worldwide epidemic of brain inflammation, caused by a virus and named encephalitis lethargica because the most severely stricken victims spent days or weeks almost comatose and immobile. Some of these patients soon developed full-blown cases of Parkinsonism, marked by alternations of involuntary movements and rigidity, a fixed gaze and a shuffling gait. Even after this...
...Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Charles Colson, Robert Mardian, Kenneth Parkinson and Gordon Strachan...