John St. John Long (English Wikipedia)
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SUMMARY
English Wikipedia biography of John St John Long, fetched directly (200 OK) rather than taken from a search-tool summary. Used as the bundle's tertiary cross-check anchor for facts independently corroborated by the directly-fetched DNB 1893 entry and Newgate Calendar 1926 transcription: the Old Bailey Cashin conviction date (23 October 1830, manslaughter, £250 fine paid immediately), the second manslaughter indictment over the death of 'Mrs. Colin Campbell Loyd' and its acquittal (19 February 1831), his death date (2 July 1834) and the tuberculosis/refused-own-treatment framing, the bequest of his 'secret' (valued at £10,000) to his brother William, and the fetched article's own statement that Long's treatments for tuberculosis both involved secret formulas, one inhaled, the other rubbed on the back or chest (used in this bundle only as the general two-formula fact, not tied to any one patient's case, since the article does not specify which formula was used on which patient). Wikipedia is a tertiary source; its own references for these facts are Rigg's 1893 DNB entry and Rayner & Crook's 1926 Complete Newgate Calendar, both of which this bundle also cites and quotes directly, so the Wikipedia citation here is corroborating rather than sole-source.
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The English Wikipedia biography of John St John Long, fetched directly on 2026-07-06, is used in this bundle as a tertiary cross-check against facts already independently confirmed from two of its own underlying references (the 1893 DNB entry and the 1926 Complete Newgate Calendar), both fetched and quoted directly elsewhere in this bundle. Wikipedia’s own reference list also independently confirmed the PMID/DOI for Hempel’s 2014 Lancet article, matching this bundle’s own PubMed/Crossref resolution of the same identifier.