PAGET, Sir James (1814 – 1899)
1814 – 1899
5 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1835
#5337
Description of a microscopic entozoon infesting the muscles of the human body.
While a first-year student at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, James Paget discovered trichina in muscle during dissection. Richard Owen, his teacher, named it Trichina spiralis and published an account, barely mentioning …
1846
#7600
A descriptive catalogue of the anatomical museum of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1866
#2996
On gouty and some other forms of phlebitis
Paget-Schroetter syndrome, venous obstruction in the upper extremity.
1874
#5772
On disease of the mammary areola preceding cancer of the mammary gland.
First description of “Paget’s disease of the nipple” –eczema of the nipple with cancer. The paper is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1936, 1, 75-78. Paget was Sergeant Surgeon to Queen Victoria, and a great surgical patho…
1877
#4343
On a form of chronic inflammation of bones (osteitis deformans).
Paget was at one time Sergeant Surgeon to Queen Victoria. His classic description of osteitis deformans led that condition to be called “Paget’s disease”. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1936, 1, 29-71.