James Paget

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James Paget

Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet (born January 11, 1814 in Great Yarmouth , † December 30, 1899 in London ) was an English surgeon and Vice Chancellor of the University of London. He is the namesake of two diseases called Paget's disease, which are also known today as osteodystrophia deformans and Paget's carcinoma , as well as Paget-von-Schroetter's syndrome . From 1856 onwards, his field of work was mainly pathological histology and, together with his friend Rudolf Virchow , he is one of the founders of modern pathology .

Live and act

James Paget was one of 18 children of an entrepreneur, of whom only eight reached adulthood. After attending Charterhouse School , he initially planned to go to the Navy, but decided to take a five-year apprenticeship with the surgeon and pharmacist Charles Costerton. In 1834 he moved to London's St Bartholomew's Hospital , where, due to lack of financial means, he gained his knowledge by accompanying Dr. Peter Latham appropriated. In 1836 he was examined by the College of Surgeons and then worked as a lecturer and author for the Medical Times and Gazette . He also learned German in order to be able to use the anatomical textbooks of the German-speaking anatomists as an aid for his autopsies carried out in his spare time. Between 1878 and 1899 Paget worked as a Consulting Surgeon at the German Hospital (London) .

In 1834 he discovered the parasite Trichinella spiralis as the cause of trichinella . In 1837 he got a job that made him £ 100 a year and began writing his first scientific articles. He became infected with typhus on a corpse and almost died from it. In 1844 he married his wife Lydia.

His most famous works are Lectures on Tumours (1851) and Lectures on Surgical Pathology (1853). In 1851 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1892 an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1858 he was appointed Surgeon-in-Ordinary for the Prince of Wales, in 1875 he took over the presidency of the Royal College of Surgeons . In 1874 he described the nipple carcinoma, which was later named after him, and in 1877 a bone disease known as Paget's disease . In 1877 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1885 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences .

On August 19, 1871, he was given the hereditary title of Baronet , of Harewood-place, in the Parish of St. George, Hanover-Square, in the County of Middlesex.

The funeral service at Westminster Abbey was held by his son Francis Paget, who later became Bishop of Oxford . His other sons were John Paget , his heir to the title, Luke Paget, Bishop of Chester , and Stephen Paget , who also became a surgeon. The James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust and the James Paget Hospital in Norfolk are named after him.

literature

  • Coppes-Zantinga AR, Coppes M J. Sir James Paget (1814-1889): A great academic Victorian. In: J Am Coll Surg 2000; 191: 70-74.
  • Reinhard Hildebrand: Rudolf Albert Koelliker and his scientific contacts abroad. In: Würzburger medical historical reports 2, 1984, pp. 101–115; here: p. 106.
  • Stephen Paget (ed.): Memoirs and Letters of Sir James Paget. London / New York (5th edition) 1901.
  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Paget, Sir James. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1088.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Paget, Sir James. 2005, p. 1088.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Püschel: The history of the German Hospital in London (1845 to 1948) (= studies on the history of the hospital system, vol. 14). Münster 1980, p. 132.
  3. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed March 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ James Paget: On disease of mammary areola preceding cancer of the mammary gland. In: St. Bart's Hospital Rep. Volume 10, 1874, pp. 87-89.
  5. ^ The London Gazette : No. 23763, p. 3465 , August 4, 1871.
  6. ↑ Baronetage: PAGET of Harewood Place, Middlesex at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
predecessor title successor
New title created Baronet, of Harewood Place
1871-1899 		John Paget
personal data
SURNAME Paget, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English surgeon and pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Yarmouth
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1899
Place of death London