3-034-698 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sir James Paget, Bart., F.R.S., 1871. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. B. Rangel, of an '...eminent surgeon, upon whom the Queen was lately pleased, to confer a baronetcy, in recognition of his services to surgery and to pathological science...He was...elected to the lectureship of physiology at St. Bartholomew's, and in 1847 was appointed assistant surgeon to that hospital. Soon after this he was chosen Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons, in which capacity he delivered a course of lectures on surgical pathology, which largely added to his reputation...In 1857 he delivered a lecture before the Royal Society "On the Cause of the Rhythmic Motion of the Heart." In the following year he obtained the appointment of surgeon to her Majesty...[He] is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, a Fellow of the Royal Society, consulting surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and a member of the Senate of the University of London. He is the author of "The Pathological Catalogue of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons," a "Report on the Results of the Use of the Microscope," (1842); "Records of Harvey," and "Motives to Industry in the Study of Medicine," (1846); and "Lectures on Surgical Pathology," (1853)'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.