Crawford Williamson Long (1815–1878)

Crawford Williamson Long *

I do not propose this evening to delve into the age-old argument concerning the discoverer of anesthesia. It is doubtful if any here assembled have, to any very great extent, witnessed surgery without anesthesia, yet only 100 years ago the screams of agony issuing from the operating room would have chilled the blood of the hardiest among us. The important point of this contribution is not which...

Sites Related to Crawford Williamson Long in Georgia.

BACKGROUND Crawford Williamson Long (1815 to 1878) was the first to use ether as an inhaled anesthetic for surgical operations. By not publishing his discovery for 7 yr, his pioneering work was largely overshadowed by that of Horace Wells (1815 to 1848), Charles Thomas Jackson (1805 to 1880), and William Thomas Green Morton (1819 to 1868). As a result, sites commemorating Long's discovery are n...

The Crawford W. Long Museum: Sharing the History of Anesthesia.

And Nicholas Crawford

Recently, a random current representation for transverse field Ising models has been introduced in [15]. This representation is a space-time version of the classical random current representation exploited by Aizenman et. al. [1, 3, 4]. In this paper we formulate and prove corresponding space-time versions of the classical switching lemma and show how they generate various correlation inequalit...

Duke University Dissertation (Williamson)

Neuroimmune Signaling in the Hippocampus: Mechanisms of Risk and Resilience by Lauren Leshen Williamson Department of Psychology & Neuroscience Duke University Date: _______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Staci D. Bilbo, Supervisor ___________________________ Christina L. Williams ___________________________ Henry Yin ___________________________ Cagla Eroglu _____________...