abstract:Stephen Paget (1855-1926) was an English surgeon, the son of the distinguished surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget. Stephen Paget has been long credited with proposing the "seed and soil" theory of metastasis, even though in his paper “The Distribution Of Secondary Growths In Cancer Of The Breast” The Lancet, Volume 133, Issue 3421, 23 March 1889, Pages 571-573 he clearly states “…the chief advocate of this theory of the relation between the embolus and the tissues which receive it is Fuchs…”“Das Sarkom des Uvealtractus”, Wien, 1882.