The History of Anesthesiology Reprint Series: Part 1 – An Account of the First Use of Sulphuric Ether.
Part One, second printing in 1992, consists of two papers by Southerners, Crawford W. Long and J. Marion Sims, describing the claim of Long and Georgia to the great discovery, now exactly one hundred and fifty years old.
The fact that William T.G. Morton, a Northerner, took up the same search and made the famous first public demonstration of ether's powers rendered anesthesia a purely American discovery, a boon to humanity which, as Marion Sims wisely pointed out, should be--and has long since become--a proud and significant unifying element in the medical history of the United States.
A copy was presented to each registrant of The Third International Symposium on the History of Anesthesia TISHA in 1992.
Part One was originally published in 1971.
Catalog Record: The History of Anesthesiology Reprint Series: Part 1 – An Account of the First Use of Sulphuric Ether. Access Key: ajim
Title: The history of anesthesiology reprint series : part one : an account of the first use of sulphuric ether / by Crawford W. Long ; The discovery of anesthesia / by J. Marian Sims ; Letter from J. Marion Sims to Crawford W. Long.
Author: Long, Crawford W. (Crawford Williamson), 1815-1878.
Author: Sims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883.
WLM Call Number WO 211 M W85 1971
Publisher: Park Ridge, Illinois: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 1971, ©1992.
Physical Description: v, 41 p. : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Subject: Ether, Sulphuric – history – United States.
Subject: Anesthesiology – history – United States.
Subject: Anesthesia – history – United States.
Series Title: The history of anesthesiology reprint series
Series Number: part 1.
Type of Trace: Alt. Title
Title: Letter from J. Marion Sims to Crawford W. Long.
Type of Trace: Reprinted from
Title: Virginia Medical Monthly, May 1877, volume 4, number 2.
Type of Trace: Alt. Title
Title: Discovery of anesthesia.
Type of Trace: Reprinted from
Title: Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, 1849, volume 15.
General Notes: Reprinted from the Virginia Medical Monthly, volume 4, number 2, May
1877, and the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 15, 1849.
