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| 31 Dover St W | |
| Feb 21/62 | |
| My dear Sir: | |
| An Irishman (apparently) | |
| writes to a very honest | |
| Irish Captain of my | |
| acquaintance, Captain | |
| of the Army Hospital | |
| Corps, apparently | |
| taking him for the | |
| Captain of the Doctors | |
| & therefore the Chief | |
| Doctor - for Medical | |
| advice for his, the | |
| applicant's, brother. | |
| Whereupon the Captain | |
1. James Paget (1814-1899) was a British surgeon and pathologist. He was born in Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, the eighth of seventeen children. At the age of sixteen, he apprenticed to Charles Costerton, a local surgeon, and later enrolled at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1835, Paget served as a clinical clerk since he could not afford a surgical pupillage. However, in 1836 he was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons and eventually became one of the original fellows of the College. At the time of this letter from Miss Nightingale, he had been appointed as a full surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and served as surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria. In 1871, he received a baronetcy and thereafter would be referred to as Sir James Paget (Walton, Beeson, and Scott, 1986).
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