The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-18
TRIBUTE TO CRAWFORD LONG.
Members of Association Approve
Medical Journals EDITORIAL.

Members of Association Approve
Medical Journals EDITORIAL.
An editorial by DIR. ST, j. B. Graham
of Savannah in the last issue of the
Georgia Journal of Medicine and Sur
gerry has attracted the attention of the
Medical Association. The editorial is
tribute to Crawford w Long of
Georgia and has been endorsed by the
members.
The editorial follows
1t is a great pleasure and satisfac-
ton to the physicians and people of
Georgia and the South, that the name
and statue of Crawford W. Long, of
Georgia, will it seems be placed, with
the regulations of this institution,
within it's portals, alongside that of
James Oglethorpe. His name will oc-
cupy this position on account of be-
ing the original discoverer of Ether
Anaesthesia-the greatest blessing and
boon ever given to suffering feeling
things, True, he did not discover
Ether, nor did Simpson discover
chloroform. Long, did discover that
the vapor of Ethers w en- inhaled, pro-
duced Inconsistencies to pain, and so
demonstrated it, His ascendancy to
the Hall of Fame will prove the truth
as the original discoverer of Etheriza-
ton, or we might say, of Anaesthesia
This was in 1912, prior to the rights
or claims of any other living or dead
individual. Surely "the good that men
do live after Them" and "a prophet
is not without honor save in his own
country and now soon he will re-
ceive from his home and his people,
and his country, a lust recognition
Flow quickly those VINO argue against
the clear and proven claims, of this
now, silent genius. if attacked with
appendicitis, a severe or shocking,
painful accident would cry out for re-
lief of intense nerve vibration, pain
for Ether, for Chloroform, and in their
blissful unsciousness be released again;
and wake to the world of light and
colors, to the happy sunshine of the
morning, or the quiet shades of bliss
full evening, free from heart-rending
pain-and forget so soon the debt they
owe to the immortal pathfinder.
Eaten bread is soon forgotten
Every feeling, thinking, knowing
man, who has experienced and re-
ceived either to himself, or in his
family, or among his kind relations, re-
lief from pain through Ether Anaes-
thesia, justly, honestly and fairly owes
a debt to a child of light, who now
the wealth of the mortal world; or the
riches of tabled Croesus could con-
struct. Not made by hands, but eter-
nal in the heavens.
There is a path which no fowl
knoweth, and which the vulture's eye
hath not seem"
Crawford w. Long at least knew one
football on this pathway, and left the
track behind him, that fair-minded-
ness. honor, chivalry and gratitude will
not deny. In the initial number of this
journal we had occasion to make some
remarks regarding Crawford Long
Our esteemed contemporary, the At
lanta Medical Weekly. at that time
seemed to fear our success, if we based
our claim of recognition because of
the latent talent and genius in the
South evidenced by the discovery of
Ether Anaesthesia by a Georgia ply
stefan, it will have hard sledding.",
Time has proven that our shedding has
not been easy. for nothing worth hav-
ing ever comes easy, but we are still
up and doing" and the name of Craw-
ford w. Long viii go into the immor-
a