Parkinson's Syndrome

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Abstract
THE devastating illness to which James Parkinson called attention in 1817 has received a good deal of attention in the past ten years. Pharmaceutical chemists have developed rather a large number of compounds with varying degrees of effectiveness against some of the symptoms. A brilliant development of neurosurgical procedures aimed at the selective destruction of several basal-ganglion nuclear centers has also occurred. Perhaps this dramatic amelioration of tremor and rigidity by surgery has been the largest factor accounting for a resurgence of interest a hundred and forty-three years after the appearance of Parkinson's excellent clinical description.PathologyThere has been . . .