Paget, Sir James, FRS

Timeline for Sir James Paget

1814: 11th January: Born in Great Yarmouth

1830: Starts Apprenticeship with Dr. Costerton of Great Yarmouth

1834: Publication of A Sketch of the Natural History of Great Yarmouth and its Neighbourhood. Medical student at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital

1835: Discovers Trichina Spiralis

1836: Passed the Membership Examination of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS)

1837: Curator of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum

1839: Demonstrator of Morbid Anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital

1841: Elected Surgeon to the Finsbury Dispensary

1842: Appointed to catalogue specimens in Hunterian Museum of the RCS

1843: Appointed Lecturer in Physiology at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Appointed first Warden of the College for St. Bartholomew’s Hospital medical students. Elected Foundation Fellow of the RCS. One of 300 and the youngest.

1847: Appointed Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the RCS (Arris and Gale Lecturer). Elected Assistant Surgeon at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital

1848: Publication of Kirke’s Handbook of Physiology : mainly consisted of Paget’s lectures 1849: Completed the Pathological Catalogue of the College of Surgeons’ Museum

1851: Began private surgical practice more or less full time. Elected Fellow of the RCS 1853: Publication of Lectures in Surgical Pathology

1854: Appointed Examiner to the East India Company

1857: Croonian Lecture On the Cause of the Rhythmic Motion of the Heart

1858: Appointed Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria

1859: Lecture at the Royal Institution on The Chronometry of Life

1860: Joined the Senate of London University

1861: Appointed Surgeon of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital

1862: Paid the final instalment of his father’s debts. Appointed Surgeon to Christ’s Hospital. Address to the British Medical Association On treatment of patients after surgical operations 1863: Appointed Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the Prince of Wales

1865: Elected to the Council of the RCS. Appointed Joint Lecturer in Surgery at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital with Mr. Holmes Coote

1869: Appointed a member of the Royal Sanitary Commission. President of Clinical Society of London. Published What becomes of Medical Students? in St. Bartholomew’s Reports 1871: Resigned as Surgeon from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and appointed Consulting Surgeon. Created a Baronet

1872: Elected Fellow of the Linnean Society

1873: Portrait painted by John Millais presented by his colleagues and friends

1874: President of the Section of Surgery of the British Medical Association in Norwich. Gave a paper On Disease of the Mammary Areola Preceding Cancer of the Mammary Gland 1875: Elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society. Publication of Clinical Lectures and Essays

1876: Publication in Vanity Fair of Spy’s caricature. Appointed to the General Medical Council. Gave a paper On a Form of Chronic Inflammation of the Bones (osteitis deformans) 1877: Hunterian Oration of the RCS. Stopped operating, except on small cases

1880: President of the Section of Pathology at the BMA. Lectured on Elemental Pathology 1881: Appointed Governor of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. President of the 7th International Medical Congress. Appointed to the Hospital’s Commission. Elected Honorary Fellow of the Medical Society of London

1882: Gave the first Bradshawe Lecture at the RCS On some Rare and New Diseases

1883: Elected a Vice-Chancellor of London University

1884: Appointed a Vice-President of the International Health Exhibition

1885: Elected Corresponding Member of the Académie des Sciences. RCS commissioned Sir Edgar Boehme to produce a bust of him. Publication of a new edition of the

Pathological Catalogue of the Museum of the RCS. Talk to the Abernethian Society of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital on St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and School Fifty Years Ago

1886: Finished writing his memoirs. Appointed the Chairman of the Pasteur Committee 1887: President of the Pathological Society of London

1888: Opened Great Yarmouth General Hospital. A ward named after him at the hospital 1889: Appointed to the Royal Commission on Vaccination

1891: Studies of Old Case-Books published. Chairman of the Virchow Testimonial Fund to celebrate Virchow’s 70th birthday

1895: St. Bartholomew’s Hospital names a ward after him

1897: Royal College of Surgeons awarded him the Honorary Gold Medal of the College 1899: December 30th dies peacefully at his home

1900: January 4th Funeral in Westminster Abbey