Show sv wa HAULER JAKLON to the galaxy of sol aa adlers and statesmen eta hony B ored with places in slat nary hall at the nations capital the hall of fame a country doctor he Is dr crawford long of georgia declared by many authorities to have discovered the value of anesthesia in surgical operations aara aa r a preventive of pain doctor long Is the first of georgias languished sons to be honored with in the hall of fame each bite Is permitted to honor two of its alve bons eons with statues and on aich a ich 30 a group of georgians head jbv gov clifford walker journeyed washington to unveil the statue cut m marble by J massey and cepter by congress tinder a resola ff introduced by senator harris this Is the second memorial hower placed in the hall of fame to discoverer of anesthesia mas yhu etts already has put one there memory of william T G mor eds boston who for a g time disputed with doctor long ebright to be known as the first to ebether in deadening pain in a sural operation cut various authora acknowledged doctor long s alm ilm to the honor and it seems to hsen established thoroughly st the georgia physician as early 80 1842 performed a pain w operation with the aid of sul feric ether the monument there jfe was unveIl eU on the anniversary ahat date ahls newest memorial Is only one erected to doctor long in 50 connection in the state capitol there Is a life size por alt of doctor long placed there by friend to honor him for his great recovery As early as march SO the university of pennsylvania itel led a bronze medallion in the eora ians honor two years before at date at jefferson in jackson anty georgia where doctor long id lived and where his first use of er in a surgical operation took ace his friends and old neighbors 4 r admirers had erected a marble aft in his memory on the campus of the georgia state at Athen is also a arble tablet telling of doctor longs and the republic of france tribute to this country doc abt the south for the part he played making surgery painless they tell story too of the late king edward wha when he awakened following t operation for appendicitis asked bo had discovered anesthesia those replied dr crawford ng your majesty the kings phy aldan recognized doctor longs claim to the honor doctor long was the eon of james and elizabeth ware long and was born in ga november 1 1815 he was graduated from franklin college now the university of georgia in 1835 standing second in hla class and went from there to the university of pennsylvania to study medicine he was graduated from that university in 1839 and tor a year was employed in a new york hospital this work ald not appeal to him and he returned to georgia to take up the practice of medicine he settled in jefferson jackson county after he began the practice of medicine in jefferson as a young man doctor long became popular he was companionable and his office was made the rendezvous tor the younger people of the community who frequented it for what they termed ether frolics they would inhale nitrous oxide gas and while under its influx ence do many ridiculous things these parties became quite a tad doctor long wished to encourage his young friends in their fun but he found it difficult to supply them with sufficient nitrous oxide to meet their demands with the inadequate laboratory equipment be possessed he found it impossible to prepare this clement in quantities so he permitted them to use sulphuric ether and ether parties became the rage in the winter of 1841 42 the young doctor observed that ether seemed to make those who partook of it insensible to pain one night at a frolic a youth slipped and fell he dislocated his ankle but suffered no pain then the young practitioner concluded that if ether inhaled in fun could make a person oblivious to pain it could be employed in a scientific way to stop pain in operations among the young men of doctor longs acquaintance was james M venable who suffered from tumors la his neck doctor long suggested he could put him under the influence of sulphuric ether and remove the tumors without pain the young patient was game he consented to let long do the job doctor long administered the anesthetic and when venable awoke he would not believe that he had received relief this operation was performed on march 30 1842 it was followed by another as shown by the bill rendered tor the service this bill was as follows james venable to dr C W long dr 1842 jan Sulfur lc ether 25 march ether and ex tumor may sulfuric ether 25 june ath tumor 2 00 it Is recorded that within a few months time doctor long performed as many as eight painless operations through the employment of the new anesthetic it was generally accepted in the neighborhood that he could do it no great stir was made over it and the practitioner exerted no effort to acquaint the medical world with his achievement in the meantime W T G mortem was experimenting in the boston of flee and laboratory of dr 0 T jack son he became interested in den and made several contributions to that science first trying ether on animals he extended the experiments alcohol laudanum and galvanic shocks had hitherto been used as anodynes ano dynes in dentistry being a dentist he could not perform surgical operations but on october in the massachusetts general hospital in boston dr J 0 warren acting upon the idea of doctor morton did perform a public opera alon upon a person anesthetized with ether and the medical world of the east was advised of it this was more than tour years after the venable operation there were four witnesses to the removal of the venable tumor young students in doctor long s office but they seem to have kept as quiet about it as he did eventually the dispute as to the right of discovery and the honor of having performed the first operation reached congress in 1849 doctor morton asked congress to recognize his claim but senator william 0 dawson of georgia fought so effectively for doctor long that mortons Mor tons am botlon was defeated no action was taken it must be said in justice to doctor jackson that before he died he admitted in full the justice of the claim of doctor long dr J marion sims of new york in 1877 after a complete inquiry into the controversy declared that doctor longs right to the honor was unmistakable and BO reported to the virginia medical society the unveiling of the memorial in statuary hall at washington has placed in imperishable marble the story of this great achievement it Is curious that every rival of doctor long for this honor came to n dra marlc end dr wells over come by the rejection of his claim by the french academy committed sul clde morton died from congestion of the brain induced by excitement over an article seeking to deprive him of his honors and jackson like wells became insane from the contention over the disputed honors and died in an asylum doctor long himself in the fullness of service was stricken with yat the bedside of a patient the discovery alleviating mans suffering came not only from a scientist but from a man of large sympathies doctor long loved people and horses enjoyed cards and the theater in his reading of which he was very fond he shared his pleasure with the family circle doctor long died in attendance on an obstetrical case his last words being directions for the recovery of the patient |