Long, the discoverer of anaesthesia : a presentation of his original documents / by Hugh H. Young.

  • Young, Hugh H., 1870-1945.
Date:
[1897?]
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Credit: Long, the discoverer of anaesthesia : a presentation of his original documents / by Hugh H. Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \_From the Johns Hopkins Historical Bulletin, Nos. 77-78, August-Septembe?, LONG, THE DISCOVERER OF AN/ESTHESIA. A PRESENTATION OF HIS ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS By Hugh H. Young, A. M., M. D., Assistant Resident Surgeon,Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. \^Being in substance a paper read bejore the Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Society, November 8, 1896, with additions.] It was my good fortune last summer to meet Mrs. Fanny Long Taylor, whose father, Dr. Crawford! W. Long, is thought by many to be the original discoverer of anaesthesia. As she put me in possession of her father’s papers, I thought they might prove sufficiently interesting to warrant their pre¬ sentation to this Society. During the famous ether controversy which was waged in the forties and fifties the work of Long received little attention. A modest, retiring man, who abhorred public strife and controversy, too honorable to wish pecuniary reward for his discovery, it is not strange that he made no effort to get the reward from Congress, but preferred to let the justice of his claim be judged by an un¬ biased posterity. Crawford W. Long was born in Danielsville, Ga., on the first of November, 1815. His grandfather was Capt. Samuel Long, of Pennsylvania, who made a brilliant record in the Revolutionary war and was one of Lafayette’s captains at Yorktown. Soon after the close of that eventful struggle he left his native State and took his family to Georgia, where they settled along with a large colony of Pennsylvanians. His son, James Long, received every educational advantage there obtainable, and inheriting his father’s executive ability, be¬ came one of the prominent mein of his State. Although engaged in mercantile pursuits he wias a hard student of tne law, and soi well versed in the principles of jurisprudence that he was often consulted by judges in difficult cases. He represented his people in the Senate for a number of years and was the intimate friend, adviser and confidant of Wm. H.