Parkinson’s Disease May Have Intestinal Origins. Researchers Want To Demonstrate It
The first thorough account of Parkinson’s disease was written by British physician James Parkinson and published in 1817. Parkinson’s disease discovered, based on his observation of six cases, that a patient initially feels a mild sense of weakness and some annoying tremor in one of their hands. Tremors gradually increase in frequency as the disease deteriorates. Simple tasks like walking and eating become difficult to the point that help is required. After a number of years, the patient is completely unable to control their muscles and needs round-the-clock care. More than 200 years have passed since Parkinson wrote his essay on the “shaking palsy,” as he referred to it. However, the illness that bears his name still has no known treatment, and it is still unclear why some people contract it while others do not. Ted M. Dawson, a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, stated that “no one really knows what causes Parkinson’s disease , other than the...