Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859-1930)
James Paget
British scientist (1814-1899)
Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet FRS HFRSE(, 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 Tumoursand Lectures on Surgical Pathology (1853).
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About the James Paget
Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet FRS HFRSE(, 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 Tumoursand 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.