Volume 1

Some personal recollections and private correspondence of Dr. Crawford Williamson Long : discoverer of anaesthesia with sulphuric ether together with documentary proofs of his priority in this wonderful discovery / by Jos. Jacobs.

  • Jacobs, Joseph, 1859-1929.
Date:
1919
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Credit: Some personal recollections and private correspondence of Dr. Crawford Williamson Long : discoverer of anaesthesia with sulphuric ether together with documentary proofs of his priority in this wonderful discovery / by Jos. Jacobs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    its exhilarating effects and know that it was ether that was inhaled by Mr. Venable when the operation was performed. (Signed) Edmund S. Rawls, M. D. Sworn to and subscribed before me August 4, 1849. F. H. Rowe, J. I. C. IV Georgia, Jackson County. Personally appeared before me, N. H. Pendergrass, an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, Robert J. Millican, who, being duly sworn deposes and says: that he is personally acquainted with Dr. C. W. Long, formerly of Jefferson, now of Athens, Ga., that deponent resided but a few miles of Jefferson in the years 1842, 1843 and 1844, that during the years 1842, 1843 and 1844, he heard from divers persons that the said Dr. C. W. Long did cut out two tumors from the neck of James M. Venable, formerly of said county, State aforesaid, while under the influence of the inhalation of sulphuric ether, without said Venable suffering pain during the operations, that said operations were performed in the year 1842 and the fact was notorious in said county. (Signed) Robt. J. Millican. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th of March, 1854. N. H. Pendergrass, J. P. V Georgia, Thomas County. Personally appeared before me John G. Lindsey who, being duly sworn deposes and says, that he was a classmate of James M. Venable in the Academy at Jefferson, Georgia, in the year, 1842, being in charge of Wm. H. Thurmond, Esq., and that some time during that year, there was a sur¬ gical operation performed on said Venable, by Dr. C. W. Long, while, as he the said James M. Venable has repeatedly told me, was under the in¬ fluence of sulphuric ether, administered by said C. W. Long. I recollect to have heard him, Venable, say, often, in conversation with others, that the operation was performed without any pain whatever. The operation was the cutting of a tumor or wen from the back of said Venable’s neck. I know I cannot be mistaken, as it was the only year Mr. Thurmond ever had charge of the Academy at Jefferson. (Signed) John G. Lindsey. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th day of December, 1853. James H. Hayes, J. I. C. VI Athens, Clarke County, Georgia. August 15, 1878. I, the undersigned, do certify that in May, 1843, I assisted Dr. R. D. Moore in amputating the leg of a colored boy, Augustus, then the property of Mr. Wm. Stroud, who resided in this county, that I distinctly recollect hearing Dr. R. D. Moore say: That if I had thought of it before leaving home I would have tried Dr. C. W. Long’s great discovery, viz: the ad¬ ministration of sulphuric ether in performing the operation. Having neg¬ lected to bring the ether. Dr. Moore finally concluded to influence the pa¬ tient with morphia, under which the operation was performed. (Signed) Jos. B. Carlton, M. D. VII I do certify that Dr. Crawford W. Long of Jefferson, Ga., advised my husband, Dr. Joseph B. Carlton, a resident of Athens, Ga., to try sulphu¬ ric ether as an anaesthetic in his practice in November or December, 1844. While on a visit to that place, in the office of Dr. Long, my husband extracted a tooth from a boy who was under the influence by inhalation of sulphuric ether, without pain. 1 further certify that the fact of Dr. Long using sulphuric ether by inhalation to prevent pain in surgery was