Crawford Long

Background

An American surgeon in Georgia.

Contribution

Used ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1842, several years before Morton's demonstration, but did not publish until 1849.

Associated inventions

• Surgical Anesthesia

Collaborators & contemporaries

• William T. G. Morton

Sources & further reading

Each citation names the publisher and the exact reference title.

• U.S. National Library of Medicine — history of medicineU.S. National Library of Medicine (NIH) · Government / archive

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