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Excerpt from Long, the Discoverer of Anaesthesia: A Presentation of His Original Documents 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.