James Paget

Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet, was an English surgeon and pathologist, born in Great Yarmouth on 11 January 1814 and died on 30 December 1899. He is best remembered for first describing Paget's disease and is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, one of the founders of scientific medical pathology. As a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital he discovered the parasite behind trichinosis, and he later served as curator of the hospital museum, demonstrator of morbid anatomy, lecturer on general anatomy and physiology, and assistant surgeon. His chief scientific works were Lectures on Tumours of 1851 and Lectures on Surgical Pathology of 1853, the latter drawn from his professorship at the Royal College of Surgeons. Several conditions, including Paget's disease of bone and of the nipple, are named after him.