| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Paget, Sir James |
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(p j´ t) (KEY) , 1814–99, British surgeon and pathologist. He taught and practiced at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, and cataloged the museums of St. Bartholomew’s and of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a skilled diagnostician and an authority on diseases of the bones and joints. His works include Lectures on Tumours (1851) and Lectures on Surgical Pathology (1853). |
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