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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
4 June [1870]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/38)
Summary:

Asks to have observations made of a person retching violently, but ejecting nothing from stomach, in order to test relation between spasmodic contraction of orbicular muscles and tears. CD believes tears are caused by matter filling nostrils.

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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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
18 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

JP’s note [8739] suggests reversion, but that is an easy trap. Will look to the ears of "our brethren at the Zool. Gardens".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
29 Jan [1873?]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/37)
Summary:

Has heard from Ashwin Conway Newman of Guy’s Hospital of a case of a child without any prepuce whose father was a renegade, uncircumcised Jew, but whose ancestors had all been Jews. Newman thinks this a good case of inheritance with reversion. JP’s letter [missing] now shows how rash such a conclusion would be.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
3 May 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.467)
Summary:

Thanks JP for volume of his lectures [Clinical lectures and essays, ed. H. Marsh (1875)].

Mentions "vivisection question".

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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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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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
28 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 238
Summary:

Thanks JP for his kindness, but unfortunately the [unspecified] case is of no use to him.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
14 July 1879
Source of text:
Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Miscellaneous MSS)
Summary:

Returns an "old book" [? Baeta, Comparative view of the theories and practice of Drs Cullen, Brown and Darwin (1800); see Erasmus Darwin, p. 107]. Glad to see that Dr Erasmus Darwin’s views on fever were attended to.

Fears his life of Dr Darwin will be a poor affair. "Never again will I be tempted out of my proper work."

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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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