James Paget
[2] He was one of a large family, and his brother Sir George Edward Paget (1809–1892), who became Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge in 1872, also had a distinguished career in medicine and was made a K.C.B.James attended a day-school in Yarmouth, and afterwards was intended for the navy; but this plan was given up, and at the age of 16 he was apprenticed to a general practitioner, for whom he served for four and a half years, during which time he gave his leisure hours to botanising, and made a great collection of the flora of East Norfolk.He swept the board of prizes in 1835, and again in 1836; in his first winter session, he discovered the pathogen for trichinosis, a parasitic disease caused by Trichinella spiralis, a minute roundworm that infests the muscles of the human body, and which is usually acquired by eating infected pork.He had now become known as a great physiologist and pathologist; he had done for pathology in England what Rudolf Virchow had done in Germany, but he had hardly begun to get into practice, and he had kept himself poor so he might pay his share of his father's debts, a task that took him 14 years to fulfil.No famous surgeon, not even John Hunter (1728–1793), was likely to have founded his practice deeper in science than Paget did, or waited longer for his work to come back to him.[citation needed] In physiology, he had mastered the chief English, French, German, Dutch and Italian literature of the subject, and by incessant study and microscope work had put himself level with the most advanced knowledge of his time, so that it was said of him by Robert Owen, in 1851, that he had his choice, either to be the first physiologist in Europe, or to have the first surgical practice in London, with a baronetcy.His physiological lectures at St Bartholomew's Hospital were the chief cause of the rise in the fortunes of its school, which in 1843 had gone down to a low point.[8] In 1871, he nearly died from infection at a post mortem examination, and, to lighten the weight of his work, was obliged to resign his surgeoncy to the hospital.In 1880, he gave, at Cambridge, a memorable address on Elemental Pathology, setting forth the likeness of certain diseases of plants and trees to those of the human body.[8] In 1887 he was elected President of the Pathological Society of London[14] Besides shorter writings, he also published Clinical Lectures and Essays (1st ed.He possessed the rare gift of the ability to turn swiftly from work to play, enjoying his holidays like a schoolboy, easily moved to laughter, keen to get the maximum of happiness out of very ordinary amusements, emotional in spite of incessant self-restraint, and vigorous in spite of constant overwork.
James Carleton PagetVanity FairpathologistPaget's diseaseRudolf VirchowPaget's disease of bonePaget's disease of the nippleExtramammary Paget's diseasePaget–Schroetter diseasePaget's abscessGreat YarmouthEnglandGeorge Edward PagetRegius Professor of PhysicUniversity of CambridgeK.C.B.general practitionerbotanisingNorfolkSt Bartholomew's Hospitaljournal clubpathogentrichinosisparasitic diseaseroundwormmusclesRoyal College of SurgeonspathologicalanatomyFinsbury Dispensaryphysiologysurgical pathologyRoyal SocietyFrancis PagetBishop of OxfordLuke PagetBishop of ChesterStephen Pagetseed and soil theorymetastasisCharles DarwinThomas Henry HuxleyAmerican Philosophical SocietyRoyal Medical and Chirurgical SocietyJohn HuntermicroscopeRobert OwenbacteriologytumoursCavendish SquareQueen VictoriaAlbert Edward, Prince of WalesJ. R. HancornSievieramputationmyeloid sarcomaClinical Society of LondonRoyal Swedish Academy of SciencesbaronetcyCounty of MiddlesexHunterian orationMedical and Chirurgical Society of LondonInternational Medical CongressPathological Society of LondonSir George JesselUniversity of LondonAleister CrowleyRegent's ParkPimlico MysterySir Edward ClarkeJames Paget University HospitalThe LancetThe London GazetteThe Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An AutohagiographyWikisourcepublic domainPaget, StephenChisholm, HughEncyclopædia BritannicaLee, SidneyDictionary of National BiographyBaronetage of the United KingdomBaronetJohn PagetVice-Chancellor of University of LondonSir Julian Goldsmid