Surgeons and chaplains Item Type Book Authors Rutherford, Mildred Lewis, 1852-1928 Publication Date 1923 Keywords Surgeons--Southern States; Military chaplains--Southern States; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Rutherford, Mildred Lewis, 1852-1928 Publisher Athens, Ga. : M.L. Rutherford Download date 01/10/2021 04:16:14 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10713/3453 Miss Rutherford's Scrap Book Ten Issues a Year, $2.50. Back volumes will be supplied to new subscribers. Advertisements solicited; 1 inch, $2.00; V2 page, $5.00; 1 page, $10.00. LEADING TOPICS FOR THE TEN VOLUMES FOR 1923 J ANUARy~The Causes that led to the War between the States. FEBRUARY-WaS Secession Rebellion? MARCH-Formation of The Southern Conf ederacu. ApRIL-Efforts for Peace. Why failure? MAy-Who was Responsible [01' War? JUNE-Was Coercion Constitutional? JULy-Army and Navy Organized-Leaders. AUGUST-WOman's Work in the War between the States. SEPTEMBER~Surgeons and Chaplains. 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RUTHERFORD, Athens, Georgia, LIBRARY 6ALTIMORE COLLEGE a DE.N1AL SURGE.R'f' • SCRAP BOOK FOR 1924 So well has the SCRAPBOOKbeen received by subscribers, North and CONFEDERATE SURGEONS South, the editor is encouraged to promise the 10 issues for 1924, "It is well known to all close students that Southern history has provided enough promises to subscribe next January can be obtained. never been written. Especially is this true with reference to the No money will be asked until January, 1924. The subscribers of 1923 medical profession. Great achievements by noted Southern physicians may notify their willingness to renew and it is hoped there will be and surgeons have been almost entirely ignored or overlooked by the many new subscribers to encourage the work.: I wish to take this writers of history. Southern people after the great war were too busy opportunity to thank those who have made the work possible. building up the waste places and repairing broken fortunes to think .M. RUTI-JERFORD,Editor and Publisher. of writing history. Southern people, as a rule, are too modest and LEADING TOPICS FOR 1924 too reticent to boast of their great and noble deeds. Doctors, more perhaps' than any other class, have neglected to do their duty along JANUARy-The Assassination of Abraham Lincolsi ; Sketch of John this line. Wilkes Booth and Story of His Escape; Death of Mrs. Surratt. It is not my intention to go into details nor refer at any great }<'EBRUARy-The XIII. Amendment j Preedman's Bureau j Thad length to historical matters but the object of this paper is to call Stevens' Policyj Exod1&s Order ; Scalasoaqs ; Carpet Baggers, attention of the profession to this subject with the hope that we may all take more interest in such matters in the future. Prof. Agassiz MARcH-Reconstt'uetion Daysj Andreio Johnson's PoZ'icyj How once said he had no time to make money. 'I'his is nearer the truth Thwarted. with reference to us than to any other class of people. We have not ApRIL--Ladies' Memorial Associations Organizedj Removal of Bodies time-the active physician-to make money. Too many of us think from the Battlefieldj Monuments to the Confederate Dead we have not time to take an interest in the history of our profession. Erected. But we owe it to the South, to the rising generation, to duty and to ourselves to take some interest in this matter in order that those who MAy-The XIV. and XV. Amendmentsj Organization of the Ku. Klux corne after us may have an opportunity of knowing the truth. This Klan a Necessity, matter is regarded by some as idle sentiment. It may be sentiment; JUNFr-Henry Wirzj The True Story of the Andersonville Prison ; but, if so, it is a God-given principle, and I would that we all possessed The Confederate Soldiers in Northern Prisons. more of it than we do. The further we get from sentiment the fur- ther we get from God. JULy-Histm'y of the Douohters of the ConfederacYj Historical After eight years lobbying and knocking at the doors of Congress Work, Cross of Honor, Scholarships, Essays, "lJ,ion1itJunts. W. G. Morton succeeded in getting that body to recognize him as the AUGUST-Organization of the United Confederate Veterans, Sons 01 discoverer of anaesthesia. But the facts show that Crawford W. Long, Confederate Veterans and Childt'en of the Confederacy. of Georgia, used surgical anaesthesia two and a half years before M?rton or anyone else claimed to have used it. In the year 1877 Dr. SEPTEMBER-Educational Problems in the Souih.; Histories Unjust to J . Marion Sims circulated a pamphlet in which he brought such an the South. used in Souiher« Schools. array of facts to support the claims of Crawford W. Long that no OCTOBER-The South Cmning to Her Oum ; Work Accomplished b!1 one was able to deny or disprove the statement that Long first used Text-book Committees. surgical anaesthesia. 'I'he matter was brought before the Mississippi Medical Association in 1899 and by a unanimous standing vote that Only two months remain for a decision to be reached about 1924 body said Dr. Long deserved the honor. Other State associations 'SCR.AP.BOOK. Decide about renewals and advance promises, if it is adopted like resolutions. No one at that time attempted to deny what thought that the SCR.\P Boox will be worth while. Dr. Sims had stated in his pamphlet. But since that time many seem to have forgotten the matter; and now and now we see it stated fre- quently in Northern papers that Morton deserves the honor. A few monhts ago Dr. Long's native State reared a monument to his memory with this statement as a part of the inscription: ' 4 MISS RUTHE>RF'ORD'S SCRAP BOOK MISS RUTHERFOR,D'S iSCR!AP BOOK • 5 "In memory of Dr. Crawford W. Long, the first discoverer of 'I'he grand, noble men who served as surgeons in the armies of the Anaestheisa, the great benefactor of his race. Born Danielsville, Madison County, Georgia, Nov. 1, 1815. Died, Athens, Ga., June Confederacy during the Civil War are to my mind the greatest, the 16, 1878." most deserving of honor, who have ever in any age of the world prac- On another side of the monument is the followingInscription. ticed the medical profession. 'I'he young men in our profession should "Sulphuric Ether Anaesthesia was discovered by Dr. Crawford W. see to it that those noble men occupy the place in history they so Long on March 30, 1842, at Jefferson, Ga., administered to .Iames W. nobly won. When we remember how they were hampered in their Venable for the removal of a tumor. " noble work for want of almost everything now regarded as absolutely This was tardy justice at last, but such is life. necessary in such cases; when we remember how well they succeeded, "Alas, too late oft comes the laurel wreath, we cannot but believe the Great Physician stood by them and held up A 'l"asso's brow was pale and cold in death, their hands, their energy and their lives while in discharge of their Before the long grudged bays trembled above, great and most responsible duties. The lips that sang of glory and of love." When speaking of the heroes of those dark and gloomy days we Only a few months ago a medical journal with a very large circula- should not forget to mention the name of the late Dr. Warren Stone, tion advocated the claims of Dr. Morton, and intimated that the argu- of New Orleans. When he was ordered against his will to consult with ment in favor of others was closed. So far as I know I was the only the physicians of the United States Army, when the soldiers were man who replied. The proof that Long discovered or first used sur- suffering with a disease not understood by them, he said: "It is gical anaesthesia is as plain as that which proves that Washington was mange, a disease of dogs." A prison cell yawned for him, but he once President of the United States. Yet Northern writers and speak- braved all and told the truth. 'I'his is but one incident in the life of ers presistently ignore the facts. T'he old quotation, "Let justice be that great man during those stirring times which proved him a hero. done though the heavens fall," should be remembered and followed In Chicago when Southern prisoners were confined and dying from 'by all. But we add, let justice be done, although a Southern man be the effects of cold, Dr.