Parkinson’s: An Industrial Age Disease
The first literature mentioning the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease are James Parkinson’s own writings in the year 1817. Dan Grossman examines the connections between a disease which came to light with the advent of the industrial revolution to possible metal and chemical manufacturing causes, and the current research.
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