Crawford W. Long
1815-1878
American physician who was among the first American doctors to use ethyl ether as a general anesthetic agent for surgical operations. Although Long used ether anesthesia in ...
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Crawford Williamson Long (1815-1878), American physician, is credited with the first use of ether as an anesthetic in a surgical procedure.Crawford Long was born in Danielsville, Ga., on March 1, 1815...
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Long was the first physician to use ether to anesthetize a patient in surgery. Long performed his ground-breaking surgery in 1842, but the credit for the first public demonstration of the anesthetic e...
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Crawford W. Long
Crawford Williamson Long
Crawford Williamson Long