Word: parkinsonism
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...others back through the mists of Tudor and Stuart drama (Eng. 125). And, a final note of the abstruse, L. I. Rudolph, his Max Weber clutched in his hand, will explore the bureaucracies of modern and developing societies (Government 121), a topic covered more succintly by C. Northcote Parkinson...
Died. Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, 72, vintage naval aviator who bossed the Bureau of Aeronautics during World War II, served as Vice Chief of Naval Operations from 1946 to 1948; of Parkinson's disease: in Philadelphia...
Known to most laymen as "shaking palsy," the condition was named for James Parkinson, an English physician who described it in 1817. An affliction that has claimed many famous victims,-it is marked by slowness and stiffness of movement, facial immobility, shuffling gait, forward-leaning posture, and "pill-rolling" movements with the fingers. Most characteristic is the tremor, usually of the limbs, sometimes of the head, especially noticeable at rest. It does not kill. Drugs relieve a few of the symptoms, but the only radical treatment is daring brain surgery pioneered by New York University's Dr. Irving Cooper...
Schwab of Harvard University completed a study of 1,436 Parkinson's patients seen at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1875 and concluded that the great majority of current cases are the result of a baffling epidemic of encephalitis that swept around the world in 1915-25. The evidence is indirect, but the Harvard researchers make a persuasive case. Key links in their chain of evidence: EUR| For more than a century, Parkinson's was a rare disease; only 2 2 of the cases at "the General" occurred in the first 42 years studied, while 1,414 appeared...
Though this form of encephalitis killed up to 30% of its victims and left others crippled by nerve damage resembling Parkinson's, most patients seemed to make a full recovery. And physicians suspect that, as in all such epidemics, there were many undetected cases. In these, Drs. Poskanzer and Schwab believe, de-layed-fuse damage to the nerve cells in the subthalamic region caused Parkinson's disease up to 40 or more years later...