<P> The history of Parkinson 's disease expands from 1817 , when British apothecary James Parkinson published An Essay on the Shaking Palsy , to modern times . Before Parkinson 's descriptions , others had already described features of the disease that would bear his name , while the 20th century greatly improved knowledge of the disease and its treatments . PD was then known as paralysis agitans ( shaking palsy in English ) . The term `` Parkinson 's disease '' was coined in 1865 by William Sanders and later popularized by French neurologist Jean - Martin Charcot . </P>
<P> The history of Parkinson 's disease expands from 1817 , when British apothecary James Parkinson published An Essay on the Shaking Palsy , to modern times . Before Parkinson 's descriptions , others had already described features of the disease that would bear his name , while the 20th century greatly improved knowledge of the disease and its treatments . PD was then known as paralysis agitans ( shaking palsy in English ) . The term `` Parkinson 's disease '' was coined in 1865 by William Sanders and later popularized by French neurologist Jean - Martin Charcot . </P>
where did parkinson 's disease get its name
where did parkinson 's disease get its name
British apothecary James Parkinson
British apothecary James Parkinson