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With an engineer and a sound truck Bokhari had toured the countryside to let isolated farm communities hear the voices from the ether. Ryots (farmers) looked upon the sound truck with suspicion: they thought it probably meant more taxes. In one mud village skeptical natives listened in ominous silence to the "voice from Delhi"; when the engineer, hitherto unseen, was spotted inside the van after the broadcast, they clamored indignantly that they had been duped. Bokhari, trying to pacify them, promised to bring the voice back while the engineer remained outside, in plain view. Bokhari threw the switch, fiddled with...
...does it appear that ether was used in any single hospital in the world to allay the agony of surgical operations prior to the demonstration by Dentist Morton at the Massachusetts General Hospital on Oct. 16, 1846. The very word "anesthesia" sprang into being some few weeks later...
Postmaster Farley's placing Dr. Long's likeness upon a postage stamp in honor of his having been the "discoverer" of ether leads to a warranted discussion of what the word "discovery" means. As to this, Professor John Ware of Harvard Medical School in a letter dated April 16, 1861 to Dr. Charles Jackson (another claimant) said: "The discovery of the fact that the state of anesthesia is a safe one and thus available in practice is due to Morton. James Watt did not originate the steam engine. George Stephenson did not first introduce the railway...
Most students of the history of anesthesia are convinced that it wasn't because Long was "Too modest to publish his early experiments" that "he laid his ether bottles aside." Crawford W. Long was simply not impressed with the fact that he had a great discovery in his hands, and so he "laid his ether bottles aside" until he read of Wm. T. G. Morton's work, and then three years after Morton's announcement he published his claim as the discoverer of anesthesia...
Last week as the armed forces of Germany went a-Blitzkrieging into Belgium and Holland, short-wave listeners at CBS and NBC, on the air 24 hours a day for the duration of the crisis, dialed, interpreted, transmitted with feverish haste. The ether rasped and crackled with charges & countercharges: bigwig power-politicians took the air and thundered...