Théodore Léger (physician)
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Théodore Léger (1799 – 6 October 1853) was a French physician.
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Biography
Léger was professor of midwifery in Paris, a member of the Medical College of Mexico, and a vice president of the Medical Society of New Orleans before going to Texas in 1836. He was one of the doctors who attended the dying Stephen F. Austin in his last illness. In December 1837, Léger was living in Brazoria and alongside Algernon P. Thompson (1818–1871), he founded a newspaper in which he espoused the policies of Mirabeau B. Lamar. Their journal, The People, was short-lived because of its financial problems and its unpopular stand with regard to Sam Houston.
While living in New York city in the mid 1840s, he had a large clientele among artists and intellectuals, such as Margaret Fuller.[1] Later in life, he also practised medicine at 20 Gerrard Street, Soho.
Théodore Léger died in London.
Works
- Considérations sur l'Endurcissement du Tissu Cellulaire chez les Nouveau-nés (1823)
- Manuel des Jeunes Mères (1825)
- Essay on the Particular Influence of Prejudices in Medicine: Over the Treatment of the Disease Most Common in Texas, Intermittent Fever, Preceded by a Few General Observations on Medical Theories (1838)
- Animal Magnetism, or, Psycodunamy (1846)
- The Magnetoscope: A Philosophical Essay on the Magnetoiod Characteristics of Elementary Principles and Their Relations to the Organisation of Man (1852)
Notes
- ↑ Capper, Charles (2007). Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 212–13.
