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English surgeon and pathologist (1814–1899)

For the New Testament scholar, see James Carleton Paget.

Sir James Paget, 1st BaronetFRSHFRSE (11 January 1814 – 30 December 1899) (, rhymes with "gadget") was an English surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for naming Paget's disease^[1] and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology.

His famous works included Lectures on Tumours (1851) and Lectures on Surgical Pathology (1853). There are several medical conditions which were described by, and later named after, Paget:

Life

Paget was born in Great Yarmouth, England, on 11 January 1814, the son of Samuel Paget, a brewer and shipowner, and his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Tolver.^[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 care