Evening star., 1926-03-21
STATUE in CAPITOL TO HONOR
DOCTOR, PIONEER in ETHER USE
Georgia to Unveil Memo.
rial Here Saturday to
Crawford w. Long.
Notables Will Pay Tribute
to Physician Believed
First Anesthetist.

A country doctor of Georgia, DR..
! Crawford w. Long, recognized by
! many as the first first to perform a
| surgical operation with the use of an
anesthetic, will join the illustrious
| sons of the Nation who have won a
| place in Statuary Hall of the Capitol
| when his statue is unveiled there
| next Saturday on the eighty-fourth
anniversary of the first painless
| operation
| In the hand of DR.. Frank X Boland,
president of the Confederacy, will be
Memorial Association, as he presides
/ at the unveiling ceremony in the
presence of a distinguished gathering
| of Georgians and others. will be a
gavel fashioned from the old null
berry tree that overspread the little
| country doctors office at Jefferson,
Ga, where the operation was per-
formed Sulphuric ether, crudely ap-
! piled with a saturated towel, brought
/, the patient through the then miracu-
| lous experience of knife incision
| without pain.
Statue Is States First.
The statue of DIR. Long, the first to
be placed in the national hall Of
fame by the State of Georgia. whose
other niche there will be filled by
statue of Alexander Stephens, vice
president of the confederacy, will be
presented to the State from the
memorial association by Richard B..
Russell chief justice of the Supreme
Court of Georgia. 1t will be pre-
sented in turn to the Federal Gov
ernment by Gov Clifford NJ. Walker
of Georgia, with Senator Harris of
hot Cto} 20 40 n
Government.
The first speaker at the unveiling
ceremony will be DR.. Joseph Jacobs
of Atlanta, bioerapher of DIR. Long
and who served as his apprentice
during his later experiments with
anesthetics. Another speaker will
be Mrs. Rebecca Lattimer FELTON, of
Cartersville, Ga, the only woman
who has held seat in the United
States Senate, having been appointed
by former Gov. Hardwick to fill the
unexpired term of the late Senator
Thomas f. Watson. Present at the
ceremony also will be Mrs. c. w.
Roberts of Washington, greatgrand-
daughter of DR.. Long.
The other speakers will be DR..
Hugh Young Of Baltimore, for the
medical profession; Senator George
w ilSti lOll SEpSi loI tilc
OF Pennsylvania. from which DR..
Long was graduated in medicine:
DR.. l.. G. Hardman of Commerce,
Ga. for the Georgia Medical Asso
citation: DR.. Hamilton Long of Louis
vile. Ky, to voice the tribute of
anesthetists, and Miss Virginia Gibbes
Of Marietta, Ga. speaking for the
nursing profession.
Others Claim Honor.
Although three others have claimed
the honor of first using anasthetic
in surgical observation-disclosures
Wells of Hartford. Conn. and w. T.
G.. Morton and Charles It. Jackson
of Boston-those supporting the
claim of DR.. Long explain that these
claims arose because the Georgian
did not Immediately write of his
first use of ether in a medical jour-
nal In 1868 a monument was dedi-
Gated on the Boston Common to
commemorate the discovery of ether,
but it bears no name, and dis
tinguished speaker has referred to it
as "Boston's monument to the un-
known discoverer of anesthesia."
In writing of his experiments with
ether and his first operation with it.
in which he removed "a small tumor"
from the neck of James NJ. Venable,
residing near Jefferson, DIR. Long re-
called how it was first used as an ex-