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James Paget

1814 - 1899

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Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet FRS HFRSE (11 January 1814 – 30 December 1899) (, rhymes with "gadget") was an English surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for naming Paget's disease 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: Paget's disease of bone Paget's disease of the nipple (a form of intraductal breast cancer spreading into the skin around the nipple) Extramammary Paget's disease refers to a group of similar, more rare skin lesions discovered by Radcliffe Crocker in 1889 which affect the male and female genitalia. Paget–Schroetter disease Paget's abscess, an abscess that recurs at the site of a former abscess which had resolved. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Paget is the 583rd most popular physician (down from 493rd in 2019), the 3,721st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,789th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, James Paget ranks 583 out of 726. Before him are Özlem Türeci, Eugene Lazowski, Patrick Steptoe, Albrecht von Graefe, Nikolay Burdenko, and Andrea Andreen. After him are William Stokes, Nikolai Semashko, Oskar Vogt, Gregorio Marañón, Kamal Ranadive, and Martyn Lloyd-Jones.

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Among people born in 1814, James Paget ranks 64. Before him are Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Adolph Tidemand, Prince Karl of Auersperg, Hermann, Prince of Wied, José Posada Herrera, and Joseph Hooker. After him are Jānis Cimze, Zsigmond Kemény, Dimitrios Valvis, Nicolaas Beets, Oskar Kolberg, and Juan Rafael Mora Porras. Among people deceased in 1899, James Paget ranks 72. Before him are Zsófia Torma, Klaus Groth, Juan Luna, Gaëtan de Rochebouët, Ottmar Mergenthaler, and Numa Droz. After him are Grant Allen, Teuku Umar, Wendela Hebbe, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Karolina Světlá, and Édouard Pailleron.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Paget ranks 3,722 out of 8,785. Before him are Havergal Brian (1876), Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745), John Marshall (1876), Tyson Fury (1988), Karim Ahmad Khan (1970), and John Mayhew (1947). After him are Nigel Kennedy (1956), Gareth Evans (1980), Joe Gomez (1997), Kaya Scodelario (1992), Dudley Pound (1877), and Michael Mann (1942).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, James Paget ranks 53. Before him are Anthony Carlisle (1768), John Crawfurd (1783), Frederick Twort (1877), John Arbuthnot (1667), Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), and Patrick Steptoe (1913). After him are Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850), Richard Leach Maddox (1816), Sophia Jex-Blake (1840), Richard Doll (1912), and Astley Cooper (1768).

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