Show 0 ir counts D 0 defor as di 5 vy A aft 0 es V 4 kl 0 ZIN a TA k KAM IS A a 4 ns I 1 by PROEHL HALLER JAKLON DD to the galaxy of soldiers and statesmen honored A with places in statuary hall at the nations capital the hall of value lame A a country doctor ue he la Is dr crawford itsou long of georgia declared by many authorities to have i discovered the value of 0 anesthesia in surgical operations as a preventive of pain doctor long Is the first of georgias distinguished sons to be lio nored with a memorial in the hall of fame each state Is permitted to honor two of its native sons w with ith statues and on march 30 a group of georgians headed beaded by gov clifford walker journeyed to washington to unveil the statue cut from marble by J massey and accepted by congress under a resolution introduced by senator harris this Is the second memorial however placed in the hall of faroo fame to the discoverer of anesthesia massachusetts bachu etts already has put one there to the memory of william T 0 morton a dentist of boston who for a tong ong time disputed with doctor long the right to be known as aa the first to tise ose ether in deadening pain in a surgical operation but various authorities have acknowledged doctor longs claim to honor und and it seems to have been established thoroughly that the georgia physician as early as march 30 1842 performed a painless operation with the aid of sulphuric ether the monument therefore was unveiled on the anniversary of that date this newest memorial Is only one of several erected to doctor long in this con nedion in the state capitol at atlanta there Is a life size por per trait of doctor long placed there by a friend to honor him for tits great discovery As parly early as march la 10 80 1012 1912 the university of pennsylvania unveiled a bronze medallion in the georgians honor two years before that date at jefferson in jaclson jackson county georgia where doctor long had lived and where lila his first u ue e of ether in a surgical operation took place ills his friends and old neighbors and admirers hud bad erected a marble shaft in ills memory on the campus of the georgia state university at alberas there Is alio ahoo al io it marble tablet tolling t of bf doctor loni longa discovery and the republic of france lias paid tribute to tiff is s country doctor of the south for the part lie he pl played in making surgery painless they tell the story too of the in late te king I 1 edward dward vil VII who when lie awa awl ened hOlled following an operation tor for appendicitis abed who had discovered anesthesia those in attendance re replied piled dr crawford long your majesty the kings phy irelan recognized doctor longs claim to the honor doctor long was the son of james and elizabeth nil zabeth ware long and was i born in ga november fo ember 1 1815 lie he was graduated from frank hn college now the university of georgia in 1835 standing second in his class and went from there to the University of pennsylvania to staily medicine lie he was graduated from that university in ima 1839 and tor for a year was employed in a new york hospital this work did not appeal to him and lie he returned to georgia to take up the practice of medicine he settled in jefferson jackson county after he began the practice of clue cine in jefferson as a young man doctor long became popular he was companionable and ills his office was milde made the rendezvous for 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 ita influence do many ridiculous things these parties became quite a fad doctor long wished to encourage his young friends in their fun but he be found it difficult to supply them with sufficient nitrous oxide to meet their demands with alth the inadequate laboratory equip ment lie he possessed he found it 11 impossible to prepare this lenient element in quan titles so he permitted them to use ue sul pharic ether and ether parties be came the rage in the winter of 1841 42 the young doctor observed that ether seemed to male make those who partook of it insensible to pain one night at a frolic a youth dutli slipped and fell lie ile dislocated tits ills ankle but suffered no pain then t lie young practitioner concluded thil 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 operation among the young oung men of doctor longs long s acquaintance was james at Vena lilt who suffered from tumors tit in ills his neek neck doctor long suggested lie could put him under the influence of if sulphuric ether ind and remove the tumors without pain the die young was lie con anted to lit let lt 11 ng do tina alit job doctor long I 1 dig tle and hen venable ible gwok lie would not hilele ix ic that hint lie had re ie calved relief chiq fon wa MIS aim ti on in elarch 30 ISI 2 1 it wa followed hj 13 another ns as shown by tha hill rin hindered dered for lie he herlee till bill 1111 w wat i HI follows julius jame venible vellable to dr C W V lung long dr wa 18 1 1 jan jtb sulfuric ethar S 25 2 i march aoth uther and I 1 ex x tumor I 1 M may auli sulfuric ether 25 june ath 1 tumor LOO it Is recorded record wl that ali it within a few months time doctor long performed ns as many ns as eight painless operations through the employment ot 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 morton was experimenting in the boston office and laboratory of dr 0 T jackson lie ile became interested in dentistry and made several contributions to that science first trying ether ou on animals he extended the experiments alcohol lauda laudanum nuin and galvanic shocks had hitherto been used as anodynes ano dynes in dentistry being a dentist he be could not perform surgical operations but on october 16 1846 in the massachusetts general hospital in boston dr J 0 warren acting upon the idea of doctor morton did perform a public operation upon a person anesthetized with nether ether and the medical world of the east elest was advised of it this was more than tour four years yeara after the venable operation there were four witnesses to the removal of the venable tumor young students in doctor longs office but they seem to have kept as quiet about it as ili he did eventually the dispute as to the right of discovery and tile the honor of having performed the first opi operation ration reached congress in 1849 doctor morton asked congress to recognize his claim but senator william C dawson of georgia fought so effectively for doctor long that mortons Mo Mor rions tons ambition was defeated no action was taken it must be said in justice to doctor jackson that before ho he died be admitted in full the isaice of the claim of doctor long dr J marlon marion sims of new ya york into in 1877 after a complete inquiry into the controversy declared that doctor longs right to the honor was unmistakable and so reported to the virginia medical society the unveiling of the memorial in ili statuary hall at washington has ila placed in imperishable marble the story of this great achievement it Is curious that every rival of doctor long tor for this honor came to a dramatic end dr horace wells overcome by the rejection of his claim by the french academy committed sul clde cide morton died from congestion of the lie brain induced by excitement ovey oct nn an article heching to deprive film of ill i honors and jakson filhe 1110 wells br bo chutie insane from froin the contention over lie disputed honors and IIA lit ili all 1111 as asylum aum ium dotor doctor long himself in ili fullness of ser arnice ice was is st stricken richen matli at ahe of fi a patient the discovery minis mans af fang came no int only froin a 1 hulls hut nil froal n in ill tit in if t litno noctor doctor lonk long loed IMI people and horm enjoyed c cardinl the cheater in ili ln ili reading of chidi lie ile tva vis cry ry fond lie shared ills his pleasure suie willi the fit nil circle doctor long dha in 0 01 an all obstetrical HC ills last words lip be ing IHK fur for the reu revo heuery ery of tin the patient |