who wrote the essay on the shaking palsy
James Parkinson James Parkinson FGS (11 April 1755 – 21 December 1824)[2] was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist, and political activist, who is best known for his 1817 work, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy[3] in which he was the first to describe "paralysis agitans", a condition that would later be renamed Parkinson's disease by Jean-Martin Charcot.