John Wickham Legg
English medical doctor and theologian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Wickham Legg was an English physician and published on medical subjects, and later almost exclusively on liturgy and ecclesiology. Life and career He was the third son of the printer and bookseller George Legg, and was born at Alverstoke near Portsmouth in Hampshire, England, on 28 December 1843. He was educated at Winchester College and from there he went to New College, Oxford and subsequently opted to read Medicine at University College, London, where he studied under Sir William Jenner. Having qualified as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, he was recommended by Jenner for the post of medical attendant to Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria's fourth son, later styled Duke of Albany, a haemophiliac. Though the appointment lasted only a year, the young Legg became a favourite of the Prince's wife, Princess Helen, and of their daughter, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone.
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- A CASE OF ANOSMIA FOLLOWING A BLOW. (1873) (22)
- Three coronation orders (6)
- XI.— On an Inventory of the Vestry in Westminster Abbey, taken in 1388 (5)
- English church life from the restoration to the Tractarian movement : considered in some of its neglected and forgotten features (3)
- II. An inquiry into the cause of the slow pulse in jaundice (3)
- The Urine in Hæmophilia (1873) (2)
- English orders for consecrating churches in the seventeenth century : together with forms for the consecration of churchyards the first stone of a church the reconciliation of a church and the consecration of altar plate (1)
- The Degradation in 1686 of the Rev. Samuel Johnson (1914) (1)
- The Gift of the Papal Cap and Sword to Henry VII (1)
- The Liver in Jaundice (1874) (1)
- ADDISON'S DISEASE WITHOUT TUBERCULAR DEGENERATION OF THE SUPRARENAL CAPSULES. (1885) (1)
- Parenchymatous degeneration of the liver and other organs caused by raising the natural temperature of the body (1)
- SOME POINTS IN THE THERAPEUTICS OF GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIRENS. (1873) (1)
- On the Histology of the so-called Nutmeg Liver. (1)
- NOTE ON THE CAUSE OF THE CIRRHOSIS WHICH FOLLOWS OBSTRUCTION OF THE BILE-DUCTS. (1877) (1)
- A descriptive catalogue of the Anatomical and Pathological Museum of St. Bartholomew's Hospital / (1)
- The Queen’s Coronation Ring (1)
- An Agreement in 1536 between Certain Booksellers of Rome and Venice to Bring out the Second Text of the Reformed Breviary of Cardinal Quignon, With Introduction, List of Editions, and Bibliographical Notes (1)
- ON THE VALUE OF THE HYDRATE OF CROTON CHLORAL IN PAINFUL AFFECTIONS OF THE FIFTH NERVE. (1872) (0)
- Gelseminum in Odontalgia (1873) (0)
- MOVABLE AND FLOATING KIDNEYS. (1876) (0)
- The blessing of the palms (1888) (0)
- English pronunciation of latin (1891) (0)
- On the retention of the word "obey" in the marriage service of the Book of Common Prayer : a liturgical consultation, addressed to the Bishop of Oxford, and written before the first of August, 1914 (0)
- The Sacring of the English Kings (0)
- On the Inoculability of Epithelioma (1873) (0)
- Error as to Sarum colours (1889) (0)
- The orthodex direction for building churches (1889) (0)
- Marriage only allowed at certain times of the year (1889) (0)
- Blake's 'Holy Thursday' (1891) (0)
- “A morrow-masse preest.” (1885) (0)
- NOTES ON COLLECTS (1912) (0)
- On the histology of the nutmeg liver (0)
- “Munerari” or “numerari” in te deum (1887) (0)
- The Urea and Chlorides in the Urine of Jaundice. (0)
- Remarks on the Functions of the Liver in Jaundice (1876) (0)
- The Liver in Jaundice (1874) (0)
- Reformed breviary of cardinal quignon (1885) (0)
- The longford holbein (1891) (0)
- Leo and Draco (1887) (0)
- Arms of the see of Canterbury (1896) (0)
- Seven clerical orders (1889) (0)
- ON THE AFFINITY OF SIMPLE AND MALIGNANT JAUNDICE. (1885) (0)
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