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tion  of  the  man  and  his  invaluable  contribution  to  the  welfare 
of  humanity,  I  thought  these  shades  in  which  he  pursued  his 
academic  studies,  here,  at  his  alma  mater — old  Franklin  Col- 
lege— the  proper  place  for  a  record  of  its  expression. 
"  'Dr.  Crawford  W.  Long  was  a  graduate  of  this  university 
of  the  Class  of  1835.  Although  he  completed  a  full  medical 
course  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  benefited  by  prac- 
tical experience  in  the  hospitals  of  New  York  City,  yet  I  have 
often  thought  that,  from  the  spirit  of  the  motto  of  our  uni- 
versity, the  spirit  of  research,  "et  docere,  et  causas  rerum  ex- 
quirere"  "both  to  teach  and  to  seek  out  the  causes  of  things," 
he  formed  the  habit  of  clear  and  patient  observation  of  facts, 
which  enabled  him,  in  the  exercise  of  his  deeply  humane  and 
sympathetic  nature,  to  make  his  unexcelled  discovery,  in  the 
realms  of  the  curative  science,  for  which  he  will  be  known  in  all 
future  time  as  the  conqueror  of  surgical  agony.  The  day, 
March  30,  1842,  on  which  Dr.  Crawford  W.  Long  discovered 
ether  anaesthesia  will  be  known  in  the  annals  of  the  world  as 
the  day  of  the  world's  most  important  medical  discovery. 
"May  I  not  here  recall  the  fact  that  after  Congress  passed 
the  act  establishing  the  National  Hall  of  Fame  at  Washing- 
ton, Georgia's  Legislature  created  a  commission  to  select  the 
names  of  those  two  Georgians  whose  statues  should  be  placed  in 
that  hall.  This  commission  met  in  our  State  library,  July  1, 
1902,  and  chose  the  names  of  Crawford  W.  Long  and  Alex.  W. 
Stephens  as  those  to  be  thus  distinguished.  May  we  not  all 
hope  that  our  next  general  assembly  will  provide  the  necessary 
appropriation  for  the  execution  and  fulfillment  of  this  work. 
"Too  long  we  have  permitted  our  people  and  his  daughters 
to  say  of  Dr.  Crawford  W.  Long: 
"  '  "Though  known  to  few,  thy  unrewarded  fame  was  truly  won, 
Some  day  thy  nation's  heart  shall  proudly  claim  her  gifted 
son." 
"  'Mr.  Chairman,  it  affords  me  great  pleasure  to  tender  this 
monument  and  medallion  to  the  University  of  Georgia.'  " 
