biography
pronunciation:
[pajet]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1814–99)
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| biography:
| Physician and pathologist, born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, E England, UK. One of the founders of modern pathology, he studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he became full surgeon in 1861. He discovered the cause of trichinosis, and described the breast cancer known as Paget's disease, and the bone disease osteitis deformans known as Paget's disease of the bone. He was one of the pioneers of the technique of surgical removal of sarcoma rather than amputation of the affected limb. He was made a baronet in 1871. |
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