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Paget was born in Great Yarmouth, 11 January 1814 and was educated at a private school. He married Lydia North in 1844 and they had four sons and two daughters. He was created a baronet in 1871.
He was apprenticed to Charles Costerton, a surgeon in Yarmouth, 1830. Paget entered St Bartholomew's Hospital as a student in 1834 and whilst dissecting identified the parasite Trichina spiralis (for which Richard Owen took the credit) in 1835. In 1835-1836 Paget acted as Clinical Clerk to Dr. Peter Mere Latham.
He was sub-editor of The Medical Gazette from 1837-1842, and in 1841 was elected Surgeon to the Finsbury Dispensary. At St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Paget was appointed Curator of the Museum in 1837, and in 1839 he was chosen as Demonstrator of Morbid Anatomy. In 1843 he was promoted to Lecturer on General Anatomy and Physiology and in the same year was elected Warden of the new College for Resident Students at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (he resigned in 1851). He was elected Assistant Surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1847-1861. Consulting Surgeon, St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1869;
Paget was appointed Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria in 1858. He attended Queen Alexandra, when Princess of Wales, during a long surgical illness, and was gazetted Surgeon to King Edward VII, whom as Prince of Wales he attended during the attack of typhoid fever in 1871. From 1867-1877 he held the office of Sergeant-Surgeon Extraordinary, and in 1877 he became Sergeant-Surgeon.
He was admitted a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, in 1836, and a Fellow in 1843. At the Royal College of Surgeons he prepared the catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Hunterian Museum, between 1846 and 1849. He was Arris and Gale Professor of Anatomy and Surgery from 1847-1852; a Member of the Council from 1865-1889; a Vice-President in 1873 and 1874; Chairman of the Midwifery Board in 1874; and President in 1875. He was also the representative of the College at the General Medical Council from 1876-1881; Hunterian Orator in 1877; the first Bradshaw Lecturer in 1882, when he took as his subject “Some New and Rare Diseases”; and the first Morton Lecturer on cancer and cancerous diseases in 1887.
Paget was President of the following: Clinical Society, 1869; Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 1875; Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 1875; International Congress of Medicine, 1881; Pathological Society of London, 1887. He was also Vice-Chancellor at the University of London, 1883-1895.
Paget died in London, 30 December 1899.
His publications include: Sketch of the Natural History of Yarmouth and its Neighbourhood, containing catalogues of the species of animals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, and plants, at present known with Charles J Paget (F Skill, Yarmouth, 1834); Report on the chief results obtained by the use of the Microscope, in the study of human anatomy and physiology (London, 1842); The Motives to Industry in the study of Medicine. An address (London, 1846); Records of Harvey, in extracts from the journals of the Royal Hospital of St Bartholomew William Harvey With notes by J Paget (London, 1846); A Descriptive Catalogue of the Anatomical Museum of St Bartholomews' Hospital [vol 1, 2] (London, 1846-1862); Hand-Book of Physiology By W S Kirkes assisted by J Paget (Taylor, Walton & Maberly; John Murray, London, 1848-); Lectures on the processes of Repair and Reproduction after Injuries (London, 1849); Lectures on Surgical Pathology, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2 vol London, 1853); Sinus and Fistula -Ulcers -Tumours (innocent) -Contusions -Wounds (1860); On the importance of the study of Physiology, as a branch of education for all classes (1867); Clinical Lectures and Essays Edited by H Marsh (London, 1875); The Hunterian Oration delivered ... on the 13th of February, 1877 (London, 1877); The Contrast of Temperance with Abstinence [1879]; Theology and Science. An address (Rivingtons, London, 1881); Descriptive catalogue of the Pathological Specimens contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. Supplement Second edition with G F Goodhart and A H G Doran (J & A Churchill, London, 1882); On some rare and new diseases; suggestions for the study of part of the natural history of disease. The Bradshawe Lecture, ... 1882 (London, 1883); The Morton Lecture on Cancer and Cancerous Diseases delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons (Longmans & Co, London, 1887); Studies of old Case-Books (Longmans & Co, London, 1891); Memoirs and Letters of Sir James Paget Edited by Stephen Paget (Longmans & Co, London, 1901); Three Selected Papers. I On the Relation between the Symmetry and Diseases of the Body, 1841. II On Disease of the Mammary Areola preceding Cancer of the Mammary Gland, 1874. III On a Form of Chronic Inflammation of Bones (Osteitis deformans), 1876 (London, New Sydenham Society, 1901); Selected Essays and Addresses Edited by Stephen Paget (Longmans & Co, London, 1902).
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Papers of Sir James Paget, [1832-1896], comprising his memoirs; paper relating to 'case of blows inflicted a short time after death'; paper on the collegiate establishment of St Bartholomew's Hospital, c1840-1879; case notes, including notes on post mortem examinations, mainly of medical cases, made whilst demonstrator of morbid anatomy, 1839-1843; note book containing index to cases of tumours, notes on abscess in the abdominal walls, 1856, trichinosis, case of iliac aneurism, lecture notes, 1845, and letters to and from correspondents; paper on the 'advantages on medical societes', read before the Abernethian Society; notes on a branchial fistula with correspondence; notes on shock and reaction; index to letters relating to pathology, with note; translation of Bichat's General Anatomy, 1832;
Case notes, 1834-1839 [cases examined by Paget, Vincent, Stanley and others at St Bartholomew's Hospital]; entry book of students in the College of St Bartholomew's Hospital, with biographical annotations by Paget, 1839-1859; report on the results obtained by the microscope in the study of human anatomy and physiology, with Paget's annotations, 1842; report on the progress of human anatomy and physiology in the years 1842-1845, with notes by Paget; notes on his lectures, 1843-1856; lectures on nutrition, hypertrophy and atrophy and processes of repair and reproduction after injuries, from the London Medical Gazette, with notes by Paget, 1847; notes by Richard Owen on Paget's lectures on nutrition, 1847; notes recording experiments and observations, 1847-1850; pocket books entitled 'reference books', for lectures on physiology etc, 1848-1857; pocket books (41) containing entries of engagements, names of patients etc, 1856-1896; notes possibly for clinical lectures, 1862; notes on decay of leaves, 1892; notes and drawings, 1877-1892; notes and papers on osteitis deformans and spondylistis deformans, 1880, 1896; notes and letters on elemental pathology, 1894; notes for a paper on vivisection, 1881; notes relating to clinical lectures and essays, 1882; notes for a paper on coincidences, 1883; notes by Paget on his lectures on the blood delivered at the College of Surgeons in 1848, copied by Horace Chesterton; letters from and to Paget, including from Sir Astley Cooper and Sir Benjamin Brodie, [1867-1881].
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English |
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The records are arranged as outlined in the scope and content. |
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Open to bona fide researchers by written appointment |
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At the discretion of the librarian |
| Finding aids |
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr. |
| Related materials |
Correspondence and papers held by the American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia, USA; correspondence and papers (6 vols), 1830-1909, nd, (Reference: MSS 5701-06) and correspondence with Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer (11 items), 1884-1894 (Reference: PP/ESS) held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; index to references for his medical biographies, c1844, held by the Royal College of Physicians of London (Reference: MS 483); letters to Sir Henry Acland, 1874-1898, held by Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts (Reference: MSS Acland); letters to WE Gladstone, 1871-1894, (Reference: Add MSS 44431-789 passim), correspondence with Florence Nightingale, 1859-1888 (Reference: Add MSS 45797-808 passim) and letters to Sir Richard Owen, 1839-1886 (Reference: Add MS 39954) held by British Library, Manuscript Collections; letters (11) to Thomas Huxley, 1853-1895, held by London University: Imperial College Archives (Reference: B/HUXLEY); letters (29) to Sir Norman Moore, 1873-1896, held privately (see Historic Manuscripts Commission correspondence file - Moore, Dr Norman); letters to Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1841-1844, held by University College London (UCL) Manuscripts Room (Reference: SDUK); letters from members of the Royal Family and household, 1868-1909, held by the Royal Archives (Reference: Add X 1).
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997. |
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| Date range |
1832 to 1896 |
| Associated names |
Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins, 1783-1862, 1st Baronet, surgeon
Chesterton, Horace, fl 1848, medical student
Cooper, Sir Astley Paston, 1768-1841, 1st baronet, surgeon
Owen, Sir Richard, 1804-1892, Knight, naturalist
Paget, Sir James, 1814-1899, 1st baronet, surgeon
Stanley, Edward, 1793-1862, surgeon
Vincent, Zelophead Wyeth, 1755-1840, surgeon, antiquary
Abernethian Society, St Bartholomew's Hospital
Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1800-date
St Bartholomew's Hospital, London
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Anatomy
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