CRAWFORD WILLIAMSON LONG, THE PIONEER OF ANÆSTHESIA.

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.

The Physiology of Anæsthesia

Mixed Anæsthesia

The newest tliinjr in surgery is mixed anaesthesia, or mixed narcosis hs sgme prefer to cull it. The idea itself is comparatively old, and chloroform and morphia hare been used together in various ways for the production of anaesthesia ill hospitals, both at home and abroad in a fitful and experimental sort of way, for some three or four years past. But in this country, at all events as far as ...