Editing Peter Mark Roget (section)

==Medical career==
With the help of Samuel Romilly, Roget became a private physician to [[William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne]], who died in 1805. He then succeeded [[Thomas Percival]] at [[Manchester Infirmary]] and began to lecture on [[physiology]]. He moved to London in 1808 and in 1809 became a licentiate of the [[Royal College of Physicians]]. After an extended period of dispensary work and lecturing, in particular, at the [[Russell Institution]] and [[Royal Institution]], he was taken onto the staff of the [[Queen Charlotte Hospital]] in 1817.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="Desmond"/> He also lectured at the [[London Institution]] and the [[Windmill Street School]].<ref name="Munk">{{cite web |title=Munks Roll Details for Peter Mark Roget |url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3839 |website=munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk |access-date=16 May 2019 |archive-date=16 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116060211/http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3839 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1823 Roget and [[Peter Mere Latham]] were brought in to investigate disease at [[Millbank Penitentiary]].<ref name="Munk"/> In 1828 Roget, with [[William Thomas Brande]] and [[Thomas Telford]], submitted a report on London's water supply. In 1834 he became the first Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the [[Royal Institution]]. One of those who helped found the [[University of London]] in 1837, he was an examiner in physiology there. He gave up medical practice in 1840.<ref name="ODNB"/>