On Disease of the Mammary Areola Preceding Cancer of the Mammary Gland

Abstract

James Paget 1,2 was born in 1814, one of seventeen children. He studied at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he made-his first original observation. Small, hard specks were often seen at that time in muscle and he became very curious as to their nature. Since St. Bartholomew's did not have a microscope, he traveled to the British Museum, and discovered Trichinella spiralis. In 1842, he began to assist in the cataloguing of the College of Surgeons' Museum. In the next year, he was given the lectureship in physiology at St. Bartholomew's, and was appointed Warden of the new residential college for medical students of that hospital. His lectures attracted increasing numbers of students, and ultlmately he was made assistant surgeon. © 1980, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.