Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-06
Gorgia u. D. C.'S and the
Crawford Long Memorial
BY TOHN T. BOJFEUT.LET

| Georgia division of the United Daughters OF
the Confederacy for the year 1928.
1 am delighted to observe therefrom that
among the February topics for discussion
by the various local U. D. c. chapters in
Georgia, is the movement to place a statue
of Georgia's famous SOM DR.. Crawford w.
Long, in Statuary Hall at Washington,
D. c., which laudabe project was endorsed
at the last state convention of the United
Daughters of the Confederaey. The subject,
according to the program, will be handled
under the following heads, after responses,
in the nature of tributes to DR.. Long:
'The story of the discovery of surgical
anesthesia.'
"First operation with ether-March 30,
1912"
CDR. Long, friend of Alexander H. Ste
phens-their views on secession.
CDR. Longs service to the Confederacy."
Or Longs discovery boon to soldiers in
the War Between the States and the span
ish-American War, also the World War"
CDR Long honored by England.
The fact that the United Daughters of
the Confederacy are manifesting an ac-
tive interest in the movement to raise ten
thousand dollars with which to obtain
a statue of DR.. Long for Statuary Hall,
gives brightest promise of the final success
of the laudable and patriotic undertaking.
They are always an inspiration to lofty
aspirations They constitute noble class
of women who are ever ready to perform
duty in any deserving field. Their purest
feelings are instantly aroused by ideals of
humanitarian, philanthropic and patriotic
things. No disappointments can chill their
ardor.
Their unquenchable devotion to the glo-
rous memory of the soldiers of the Con-
federacy, and their recognition of the
vast amount of suffering the sick and
wounded heroes escaped through the ad-
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covery, will make the U. D. c. jealous to
fulfill the assurance given at their recent
convention regarding the movement to
procure the statue
Long and Stephens
The U. D. G. program says that Crawford
W: Long and Alexander H. stephens were
friends. Yes, indeed, they were lovely
and pleasant in their lives" having been
classmates and roommates at the Uni
versity of Georgia, and should their statues
occupy places side by side in Statuary Hall,
in accordance with the expressed wish of
the legislature, then truly could it be said
of the physician and the statesman, "and
in their death they were not divided"
MIR. Stephens, on August 5, 1879. in a
notable address before the alumni of the
University of Georgia, and in the course
OF tribute to the devoted friend of his
college days and of his maturer years. de-
clared that DR.. Long gave to the world ga
rate human suffering than any other of all
time
Inc U. D. Z. program contains these
"4 iue ds Topic Tor their February disser-
tatlon; Dr. Long honored by England"
IL FRANK X. Boland, popular and promi-
nent physician of Atlanta, delivered a
highly Illuminating address on Crawford
w. Long, the Discoverer of Anesthesia" at
the fifteenth annual meeting of the South
ern Medical association, Hot Springs, Ark,
November 14-17, 1921. He commenced his
admirable discourse with this highly intar1
esting statement:
When King Edward VII of England. in
l9Oz' aWoke from the anesthetic which had
Deen administered to him in performing an
operation for perityphilitis, he asked his
surgeon, Sir Frederick Treves Who dis
covered anesthesia?' Sir Frederick answered
at once, 1t was American Your Mai
esty, Crawford w. Long"
take occasion here to say that Dr.
Boland, as president of the recentlv or
ganized Crawford W. Long Memorial AS
soclatlon," is performing untiring service
IN his enthusiastic cooperation with the
otnef members of the organization in eff
torts to raise the amount of ten thousand
dollars needed to procure the marble statue
OF DIR. Long. Three Of his most energetic
associates are DR.. Joseph Jacobs, vice presf-
dent; DR.. W. ]. Blalock, treasurer and
Fred Lewis, secretary of the association
young pharmacist in DR.. Longs drug store
IN Athens, DR.. Jacobs yearns to see the
hour when DR.. Longs statue will stand in
Statuary Hall among the figures of emil
nent men of other states who have been
selected as typical and illustrative of the
grandeur and nobility of American citizen
ship.
Praise From Afar
Just here l wish to direct the special
attention of the reader to the praise of the
New Orleans Parish Medical association
which referred to DR.. Long as one whom
they regarded with pride and admiration,
not only as one of the south's most illus
trious sons, but as one of the greatest bene-
factors that America has given to the world.
His claims for the recognition and gratitude
of his fellOwmen rest upon benefactions
which are not limited by the boundaries of
his state or nation, but are as vast as hu-
mainly ITSELF"
In further illustration of what high
minded men outside of Georgia thought of
DR.. Long and his discovery, l quote the
following resolution adopted soon after
his death at the annual convention of the
National Eclectic association, at Cleveland,
Ohio:
This association takes this action to de-
clare its appreciation and recognition of
the inestimable services rendered to medical
science and humanity, and to express it's
consideration of the vast debt of gratitude
due to the late DR.. Crawford W. Long, the
discoverer of anesthesia, and hereby agrees
to cordially unite in any public endeavor to
honor his memory
Monuments and Medallions
In addition to numerous such tributes,
these are among the honors that have
been paid to DR.. Longs memory
A beautiful bronze medallion
yelled on March 80, 1912, at the University
of Pennsylvania.
In June, 1921, a reduplication of this
exquisite medallion was placed by DR..