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George Edward Paget

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Paget died on 16 January 1892 of epidemic influenza, and was buried at Cambridge. A portrait of him as an old man is prefixed to the memoir of him by his son; and his portrait, in a red gown, was painted at an earlier age, and is in possession of his family. His bust, in marble, presented by his
103:, and in 1856 was elected a member of the council of the senate. In 1863 he was chosen representative of the university on the General Council of Medical Education and Registration, of which he was elected president in 1869, and re-elected in 1874. In 1872 he was appointed to the 91:
Paget succeeded in 1842 in persuading the university to institute bedside examinations for its medical degrees, and these were the first regular clinical examinations held in the United Kingdom. In July 1851 he was elected Linacre lecturer on medicine at
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for 22 September 1860 "Case of Epilepsy with some Uncommon Symptoms"—these were peculiar automatic bursts of laughter; 10 December 1887, "Notes on an Exceptional Case of Aphasia" of a left-handed man who, having paralysis of the left side, had
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for 11 and 18 April 1868 he published "Lecture on Gastric Epilepsy", and on 4 July 1885 "Case of Remarkable Risings and Fallings of the Bodily Temperature".
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in 1873, and received an honorary degree from the university of Oxford in 1872. On 19 December 1885 he was appointed a
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Four of Paget's lectures were published by his son after his death. Two were on alcohol, one on the etiology of
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On his marriage Paget vacated his fellowship, and took a house in Cambridge. In 1855–6 he was president of the
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In 1832 Paget was elected to a physic fellowship in his college, and began the study of medicine. He entered
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of 24 February 1855 he published "Case of involuntary Tendency to Fall precipitately forwards", and in the
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Paget married, on 11 December 1851, Clara, youngest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Fardell, vicar of
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The seventh son of Samuel Paget and his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Tolver, he was born at
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Paget's first medical publication was "Cases of Morbid Rhythmical Movements" in the
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at the College of Physicians in 1866; it was printed. He was elected
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in 1824, and in addition to regular lessons, which were then, under
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wholly classical, he studied mathematics. He entered
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KCB
FRS
Great Yarmouth
Charterhouse School
John Russell
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
wrangler
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Royal College of Physicians
St John's College
Cambridge Philosophical Society
regius professorship of physic at Cambridge
Harveian oration
Fellow of the Royal Society
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
British Medical Journal
aphasia
The Lancet
William Harvey
Samuel Ward
Sidney Sussex College
Sloane collection
typhoid fever
Sutton, Isle of Ely
Hans Friedrich Gadow
Sir J. J. Thomson
George Paget Thomson

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