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Throughout his life, Parkinson reported interesting, unusual, or dramatic cases to medical societies or journals, the earliest of which are contained in the annual reports of the Royal Humane Society. His father, John Parkinson, was a medical assistant to the society, and the annual report for 1778 states that "Mr Parkinson, Hoxton, was appointed by the Court of Directors one of the medical assistants for the New River", which signified that he was on call for cases of drowning in that part of the New River which ran through Islington into the reservoir at Sadler's Well, Clerkenwell. After his father's death, James Parkinson succeeded him in this appointment.
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Throughout his life, Parkinson reported interesting, unusual, or dramatic cases to medical societies or journals, the earliest of which are contained in the annual reports of the Royal Humane Society. His father, John Parkinson, was a medical assistant to the society, and the annual report for 1778 states that "Mr Parkinson, Hoxton, was appointed by the Court of Directors one of the medical assistants for the New River", which signified that he was on call for cases of drowning in that part of the New River which ran through Islington into the reservoir at Sadler's Well, Clerkenwell. After his father's death, James Parkinson succeeded him in this appointment.
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