PAGET

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.His greatest achievement was that he made pathology dependent, in everything, on the use of the microscope, especially the pathology of tumours. Paget had for many years the largest and most arduous surgical practice in London. He was often sent cases of tumours, and of all kinds of disease of the bones and joints for a second opinion. He was the first to urge removal of tumours.