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References to Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital are retained on exterior monuments. [21] Long was honored in the "Famous American Series" of postage stamps in 1940, and in 1978 with a postcard. [22] The Crawford W. Long Museum in downtown Jefferson, Georgia, has been in operation since 1957. [23]
Crawford W. Long was a physician and pharmacist practicing in Jefferson, Georgia in the mid-19th century. During his time as a student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in the late 1830s, he had observed and probably participated in the ether frolics that had become popular at that time.
Crawford W. Long. The Crawford W. Long Museum is a history museum in downtown Jefferson, Georgia, [1] dedicated to the life and career of Crawford W. Long, and has been in operation since 1957. [2] It is a Blue Star Museum. [clarification needed] [3]
Crawford W. Long. Wells, Jackson, Morton and a Georgia doctor, Crawford W. Long, each claimed credit for the innovation of using ether as an anesthetic. [18] In either December 1841 or January 1842, Long had introduced the use of sulphuric ether as a substitution to nitrous oxide for the use of entertainment at parties.
The 11-story W. W. Orr Doctors' Building opened in 1930. [3] The W. W. Orr Medical Building. In 1931, the hospital was renamed Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital in honor of Dr. Crawford W. Long, the Georgia physician who discovered sulphuric ether for use as an anesthetic, and was the first doctor to use anesthesia during surgery. [4]
Beginning in the 1840s, European surgery began to change dramatically in character with the discovery of effective and practical anesthetic chemicals such as ether, first used by the American surgeon Crawford Long (1815–1878), and chloroform, discovered by James Young Simpson (1811–1870) and later pioneered in England by John Snow (1813 ...
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In 1842, a chemist in Rochester, William Edward Clarke provided Dr. Elijah Pope with ether prior to a tooth extraction of his patient. [12] In the same year, a doctor in Georgia, Dr. Crawford W. Long administered ether to John Venable for the removal of a neck tumour.