Word: parkinsonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic series of green thoughts: on herbs and weeds, trees and seeds, pedigreed blooms and wildflowers. Her articles were written with elegance and precision, and they deserve a place with such horticultural classics as Charles Sprague Sargent's Manual of the Trees of North America and John Parkinson's A Garden of Pleasant Flowers, published in 1629 and still in print...
DIED. Maybelle Carter, 69, matriarch of country music's Carter family; of Parkinson's disease; in Madison, Tenn. Formed in 1927, the Carter Family trio achieved lasting success by recording such traditional folk songs as Wildwood Flower and Will the Circle Be Unbroken, with member Maybelle becoming celebrated for her alto voice as well as her unique guitar and autoharp licks. When the group disbanded in 1943, Carter started out anew with her three daughters as Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, and later toured extensively with Daughter June and her husband Singer Johnny Cash...
Wick added that further studies into the exact mechanism may explain why L-dopa is also successful in controlling Parkinson's Disease...
DIED. Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 81, member of baseball's Hall of Fame who managed five major league teams during his 29-year career; of Parkinson's disease; in Bethesda, Md. After playing second base for the Washington Senators, Harris became the "boy manager" of the team at age 27 and led them to the 1924 World Series title. After that the gentlemanly pilot had a flurry of failures, but in 1947 he guided the Yankees to the world championship...
Died. Dr. George Constantin Cotzias, 58, neurologist who developed the widely used L-dopa drug treatment for Parkinson's disease; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Greek-born Cotzias left his Nazi-occupied homeland in 1941 and came to the U.S. for medical training. In 1967 he found that the drug Levodihydroxyphenylalanine successfully countered the major chemical deficiency in the brains of Parkinson victims; the discovery led him to an understanding of the biochemical abnormalities underlying the disease. When he learned he had cancer in 1973, Cotzias expanded his research to that field as well...