Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-15
and DR.. Crawford Long

ceased before the first incision was made
Since that time I have invariably desired pa
t1ents, when practicable, to continue the in
! halation during the time of the operation
Having permitted such time to eapse
without making public (the author states
| that these operations were made known to
physicians and the people all about Jefferson
and Athens at the time they occurred) my
experiments in etherization in order to show
the correctness of my statements, l procured
the certificate of the patient on within the
first operation was performed--the certif-
Gates of two who were present at the time
| of the operation, and also of his mother,
! brothers and sisters and number of his i'm
| mediate friends who heard him speak Of the
operations soon after they were performed.
| (1S42 to 1S49.)
surgical operations are not of FREQUENT
occurrence in a country practice and espe-
c1ally in the actice of a young physician:
yet I was fortunate enough to meet with two
cases in which [ could satisfactorily test the
aesthetic powers of ether. From one of these
patients l removed three tumors the same
day. the inhalation of ether was used only
in the second operation and was effectual in
preventing pain, while the patient suffered
severely from the extirpation of the other
tw2 tumors.
I'm another case I amputated two fingers
! o ia negro boy; the boy being etherized dur
|
during the other-he suffered from the lat
ter Operation and was insensible during the
other. After fully satisfying myself of the
power of ether to produce anaesthesia, I was
| DESTROYS of administering it in a severer sur
gical operation than any I had performed
In my practice prior to the published account
of the use of ether as an anaesthetic I had
no opportunity of experimenting with it in a
| capital operation, my cases being confined,
with one exception, to excising small tumors
and the amputation of fingers and toes.
| While cautiously experimenting with ether
as cases occurred, with the view of testing
its anesthetic powers, and its applicability to
severe as well as minor surgical operations,
! others more favorably situated, engaged in
similar experiments, and consequently the
publication of etherization did not 'bide my
| time -
| The American Medical association con-
demned Mortons clai min 1852, and congress
refused to grant hi mthe hundred thousand
| dollars he asked for, through the instrument
| tally of Alexander Stephens, Longs class
mate. Longs claims have been since recog-
nized by the Georgia Medical society and
many like associatons by the British Med
zeal and scientific societies. the French
Academy of Arts and Sciences; the American
. Eclectic associations; the Georgia General
! assembly; and by Mexico. In 1912 on the
anniversary of Longs great discovery the
4 University Of Pennsylvania, his alma mater,
|
honor. At this time the marble statue con-
/ tracted for with the noted sculptor, J. Mas
! sey Rhind, by the Crawford Long association
its president is nearing completion. 1t will
be erected in Washington City, there to
attest the truth during her eternal years."
as DR.. Jacobs strongly says.
The state of Georgia and history owes a
debt of gratitude to Dr. Joseph Jacobs for
his great fight in behalf of the truth as to
DR.. Long and his discovery. For a genera
! ton he has held steadily and gamey to his
struggle to collect the facts and bring about
a general recognition of Long as the discov-
erer of the value of ether in surgery and his
| success has been brilliant. 1t has been a
labor Of love with him; love for the discov-
erer and for the science he honoFed Long
gave his secret to the world without price,
and, in his own language, desired only to
be known as the benefactor of his race. The
men who in a distant section attempted to
rob him Of his victory, patented ether under
the name "Letheon' and sold county rights.
Time has revealed the truth and brought in
a verdict