PAGET (Sir James, 1814-1899, Surgeon, surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria)

Autograph Letter Signed to J. J. Atwood saying he is “heartily obliged to you for the great supply of good fare that you have been so kind as to send me. Your son, I hope is still going on well. I hope, too, thath e may completely recover his health, but the necessity of working & exposing himself to weather, during the severest part of his illness, not only much retarded his recover, but made me fear that his health would sustain permanent damage...”, 2 sides 8vo., 24 Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, 7th January

Paget was an English surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology. Sir James's reputation remains high due to his work as a surgeon and medical research and work, but he also had an apparent interest in criminal matters.
When Paget, in 1851, began practice near Cavendish Square, he had still to wait a few years more for success in professional life. The turn of the tide came about 1854 or 1855; and in 1858 he was appointed surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria, and in 1863 surgeon in ordinary to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. Paget wrote briefly and derisively of physician James Richard Hancorn, son of J. R. Hancorn: "Idle, dissipated, drinking,—associate of Sievier. Had to resign the House Surgeoncy; practised a few months with his father in Shoreditch; & died in 1860." The sculptor Robert William Sievier had a studio on Henrietta Street, near Cavendish Square.

Item Date:  1855

Stock No:  42507      £125

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