ABSTRACT
SIR JAMES PAGET was born at Yarmouth on January 11, 1814, son of a prosperous shipowner and merchant, and one of 17 children. As a boy he was intensely interested in botany and entomology, and after completing his preliminary education at a day-school in his native city, he was apprenticed to a local physician, Mr. Charles Costerton. Having completed his apprenticeship in 1834, he came up to London, and entered St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Paget was one of the most brilliant students St. Bart’s has ever known. There is hardly a student honor he did not carry off easily. He made his well known discovery of the Trichina parasite in his first year of training. He was graduated in 1836.
