Eponym And Parkinson's Disease

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An eponym as a medical term is defined as drug or disease which is named after a person. This could be either the person who discovered the drug or disease or the person who first had a disease. For example, Parkinson 's disease is named after an English physician who first described it in a monograph in 1817. The disease is a progressive neurological disease that typical starts to develop around the age of sixty. It is caused by the break down and death of neurons inside the brain, the reason for this is currently still unknown. The earliest symptom is typically a tremor in the hand of fingers. Over time this tremor spreads throughout the body and is accompanied by stiffening limbs and loss of autonomic actions such as blinking. The person