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Title: Tri-State medical journal and practitioner
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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f Jefferson, in Jackson county, Georgia.Dr. Long was not so much older than his students but that he could be onfamiliar terms with them, and entered into their discussions and experi-ments more as a companion than a preceptor. All of them, including the 42 Historical Sketch. doctor, were more or less acquainted with the ether frolics of the neighbor-hood, and young Wilhites escapade with the colored boy was freely dis-cussed; and all experimented with the ether on each other, and noticed thaton recovering from the ether intoxication they would sometimes find theirpersons bruised by having come in contact with the furniture or otherwise,and were not conscious of pain at the time. These facts suggested in themind of Dr. Long the idea of using ether to prevent the pain of surgicaloperations. The first favorable opportunity that offered was on March 30,1842, when he removed a small tumor from the neck of Mr. James M.Venable. The ether was administered on a folded towel, and as soon as he
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Crawford W.I„on<;. came under the influence of the drug the cyst was removed without anyevidence of suffering on the part of the patient, who asserted that he didnot experience the slightest degree of pain, and was incredulous whenassured that the operation was completed. Dr. Long was at the time a 4country doctor, a general practitioner,who like uIan MacLarens Dr. MacLure, was chest-doctor, and doctorfor every other organ as well; he was accoucheur and surgeon; he wasoculist and aurist and dentist, besides being chemist and druggist. Aman uwho had to do everything as best he could and as quickly. Helived and practiced in and about a country village, then more than a hundred Historical Sketch. 43 miles from a railroad, with no medical societies where he could meet hisprofessional confreres and inform them what he had done and gain wisdomand ambitious enthusiasm from their criticisms or commendations. He<3id not feel the importance of sending his valuable experiences to a medic

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