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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 9
Summary:

Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Intrigued by the analogy between fairy-rings and annular skin diseases, e.g., herpes and psoriasis.

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 10
Summary:

Encloses copy of description of an outgrown stump. Refers to letter [missing] in which CD reports on a case of amputation. Would like to check J. Simpson’s cases before thinking everything is settled.

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.9: 12
Summary:

Instructs CD that his son [William] should take a holiday following his concussion.

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 194
Summary:

Regrets that he cannot send the promised volume [Biographie médicale, 7 vols, 1820–5, biographical appendix to Dictionaire des sciences medicales]. Offers to have his son make an abstract of the biography [of Erasmus Darwin].

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 174: 11
Summary:

Thanks for Erasmus Darwin. It is a rare life and an unmatched illustration of the transmission of intellectual strength.

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1880
Source of text:
Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (Auction 3103T, 6 August 2018)
Summary:

Sends a copy of his lecture Elemental pathology: an address on elemental pathology delivered in the pathological section of the British Medical Association (Paget 1880).

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 12
Summary:

Thanks CD for his note and his new book [Movement in plants].

Makes him feel "we must go beyond plants for a really elemental pathology".

Wishes he knew enough about crystals to work at them.

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 116
Summary:

Asks CD to lunch to meet the Prince of Wales.

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0026/7/4)
Summary:

Thanks for Earthworms. Is going to Nice for a few weeks to recuperate.

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 174: 4
Summary:

Forwards a book [Horace Dobell, Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease (1861)] and a genealogical table at the author’s request.

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 174: 5
Summary:

Sends two [unidentified] papers on inheritance of medical malformations. Suggests that besides the inheritance of specific variations, the tendency to show variations in the same organ system (stomach, nervous, etc.) may also be inherited.

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1867
Source of text:
DAR 174: 6
Summary:

Will seek answers to CD’s questions on expression. Observing patients’ blushing. Is CD interested in the platysma during screaming under chloroform?

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 174: 7
Summary:

Thanks for Variation. Expects to be made more ashamed by his ignorance of the "influence of inheritance on the variations and mixtures of disease".

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
Paget ed. 1901 , p. 408
Summary:

"I enclose a note from Lord Fitzwilliam about his horse with zebra-marks. The case seems as striking as I believed."

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1872]
Source of text:
S. Paget ed. 1901, p. 408
Summary:

"I am at work on the nervous mimicry of organic disease: I have some hope that, during my work, I may fall on some facts which may be of interest to you, and you may be sure that I shall send them to you."

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1873]
Source of text:
S. Paget ed. 1901, p. 408
Summary:

"Sir William Gull has just brought me the enclosed quotations from Chaucer, as illustrations of the closure of the eyes in effort. [In "The Nun’s priest’s tale" in Canterbury tales the fox tricks Chanticleer into crowing, whereupon Chanticleer closes his eyes to make the effort (and gets seized by the fox).] He begs me to send them to you.

I have lately seen a terrier who very distinctly frowns during mental excitement – not always with anger, but often, I think, with anxiety, as in expecting food."

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 87: 56–8
Summary:

Describes a patient’s ears with peculiar tufts of hair in places where he has never seen them before. Encloses sketch.

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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 8
Summary:

A letter introducing T. F. Burgers, President of the Transvaal Republic.

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