James Paget

Sir James Paget ( born January 11, 1814 Great Yarmouth, † December 30, 1899 in London ) was an English surgeon and pathologist. He is especially called for the naming of two Paget's disease, which are today known as Osteitis deformans Paget and carcinoma. Together with Virchow, he is considered the founder of modern pathology.

Life and work

James Paget was one of 18 children, of which only eight survived to adulthood. After attending Charterhouse School he first planned to go into the Navy, but chose a five-year apprenticeship with the surgeon Charles Costerton accept. In 1834 he moved to London's St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he his knowledge appropriated lack of funds through the monitoring of patient visits by Dr. Peter Latham. He also learned German in order to use the anatomical textbooks of German anatomists as an aid to its operations in the leisure autopsies can.

In 1834 he discovered the parasite Trichinella spiralis as the cause of trichinosis. In 1837 he got a job that earned him £ 100 a year, and began to write his first scientific article. At a corpse he was infected with typhus and died almost it. In 1844 he married his wife Lydia. His most famous works are Lectures on Tumours ( 1851) and Lectures on Surgical Pathology ( 1853). In 1858 he was appointed Surgeon - in -Ordinary to the Prince of Wales, 1875, he took over the presidency of the Royal College of Surgeons.

The funeral ceremony at Westminster Abbey was held by his son, Bishop of Oxford. According to him, the James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust and the James Paget Hospital named in Norfolk.

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