John St John Long: quackery and manslaughter
secondary literature · 2014
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SUMMARY
Modern peer-reviewed medical-historical retrospective in The Lancet (2014), by medical historian Sandra Hempel, revisiting Long's manslaughter trials as a case study in nineteenth-century quackery and patient harm. Identifier (PMID 24800298 / DOI 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60737-6) independently confirmed against both PubMed E-utilities and Crossref; full text is paywalled and was not fetched, so no verbatim quote from this article is used in the bundle. Cited bibliographically as the principal modern peer-reviewed anchor establishing that Long's case remains a live reference point in the medical-historical literature on quackery, 180 years after his death.
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Sandra Hempel’s 2014 Lancet piece is the modern peer-reviewed medical-historical anchor for this case, confirming Long’s manslaughter trials remain a citable teaching example in the history-of-medicine literature. Bibliographic details (title, author, journal, volume, issue, pages, year) were independently confirmed against both the PubMed E-utilities esummary endpoint and the Crossref API for the same DOI; the two resolvers agree exactly. The article’s full text sits behind a subscription paywall (direct fetch returned HTTP 403), so this bundle does not quote it verbatim and relies on it only for the bibliographic fact that a dedicated peer-reviewed retrospective on this exact case exists.