Re: Leonardo discribes PD

[kbachn <kbachn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

very very interesting


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From: "rayilynlee" <rayilynlee@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Leonardo discribes PD


> PARKINSON'S DISEASE NEWS
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> 2nd May 2008 - History
> Leonardo da Vinci's descriptions of  Parkinson's disease
> The Italian artist, engineer and scientist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) 
> also studied anatomy, physiology and medicine. Leonardo da Vinci kept 
> secret notebooks in which he wrote and sketched his ideas and 
> observations. So keen was he to study the human body that he went out at 
> night to dissect human corpses. For more information go to Leonardo da 
> Vinci. He saw people whose symptoms coincided with the tremors seen in 
> Parkinson's Disease. Leonardo wrote in his notebooks that "you will 
> see.....those who.....move their trembling parts, such as their heads or 
> hands without permission of the soul; (the) soul with all its forces 
> cannot prevent these parts from trembling." In a translatiom of Da Vinci's 
> notebooks "The movements of paralytics of those benumbed by cold, whose 
> head and members move without control of the soul, who cannot stop the 
> movements." The combination of difficulty with voluntary movement 
> ("paraletici") and tremor ("tremanti') leave little doubt of the diagnosis 
> of Parkinson's Disease. At the end of his life Leonardo was unable to 
> paint due to the loss of control of movement in his hands. It has been 
> suggested that, by then, Leonardo had Parkinson's Disease. Due to most of 
> his notebooks remaining secret for centuries, Leonardo did not receive any 
> credit for contributing to the recognition of Parkinson's Disease.
>
> Rayilyn Brown
> Board Member AZNPF
> Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation
> rbrown@xxxxxxxxx
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