Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1815

SIR JAMES PAGET (1814-1899) Lectures on surgical pathology. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1853 Vol. I: xiv, 499, 24 pp., illus.; Vol. II: xii, 637 pp., illus. 22 cm.

Paget was associated with London's St. Bartholomew's Hospital during most of his career. Later he was appointed sergeant-surgeon to Queen Victoria. He was one of the first English surgeons to investigate microscopic structure and was an accomplished surgical pathologist. Paget is remembered to most modern students in the term Paget's disease which can either be osteitis deformans or eczema of the nipple with mammary cancer. The lectures contained in these two volumes were nearly all delivered to the Royal College of Surgeons from 1847 to 1852, during which time Paget was professor of anatomy and surgery to the College. Volume I contains lectures on hypertrophy, atrophy, the healing of wounds and injuries, inflammation, mortification, and certain specific diseases. Volume II is devoted solely to tumors and Paget has expanded these lectures to include statistical tables and additional case histories. At the time he presented these lectures, the microscope and thin tissue sections had broadened the knowledge of disease processes in tissue, and his application of this new knowledge in the lectures on bone pathology are particularly informative.

Cited references: Cushing P20 (American ed., 1854 ed.); Osler 3600 (3rd ed., 1870)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.