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PAGET, James (1814-1899)

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Born: 1814

Died: 1899

Title: Sir

Editorial Description

surgeon of St Bartholomew's Hosp; MRCS 1836; supported himself by teaching and writing; subed LONDON MED GAZETTE ; elected surgeon Finsbury Dispensary, 1841; FRCS; became sergeant-surgeon to the queen, 1877; wrote most of the lives of eminent physicians and surgeons for Charles Knight's Penny Cyclopaedia (30 vols, 1834-44), ed G. Long (authorship confirmed by MS notations in BL copy). (DNB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

868.1 — 868.1 "Gall," Penny Cyclopaedia of the SDUK, vol 11 (1838): 49-50. (Reviewed PHREN J, 11 [1838]: 425-6.)
868.2 — 868.2 "Phrenology," Penny Cyclopaedia of the SDUK, vol 17 (1840): 115-20. (Regarded as "fair" in the review in PHREN J, 14 [1841]: 169-90, 262-76.)
868.3 — 868.3 "Spurzheim," Penny Cyclopaedia of the SDUK, vol 22 (1842): 389-90.

Editorial Information

Identifier	868.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	261
Printed page	256
Database ID	2463

Original Transcription

868. PAGET, Sir James (1814-99), surgeon of St Bartholomew's
Hosp; MRCS 1836; supported himself by teaching and writing; subed LONDON MED GAZETTE (1837-42); elected surgeon Finsbury Dispensary, 1841; FRCS; became sergeant-surgeon to the queen, 1877;
wrote most of the lives of eminent physicians and surgeons for
Charles Knight's Penny Cyclopaedia (30 vols, 1834-44), ed G. Long
(authorship confirmed by MS notations in BL copy). (DNB)