The First Anesthetic: The Story of Crawford Long

The First Anesthetic: The Story of Crawford Long
ISBN-10
0820334367
ISBN-13
9780820334363
Category
Medical
Pages
194
Language
English
Published
2009-04-01
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Author
Frank Kells Boland

Description

In 1846 William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) performed the first publicly-witnessed surgery to use ether as an anesthetic when he removed a neck tumor from a patient at Massacusetts General Hospital. News of the dramatic event quickly spread and Morton was erroneously credited with discovering the procedure. Few people at the time knew that Crawford W. Long (1815-1878), a physician from Danielsville, Georgia, was the true pioneer of this important medical advancement. In 1950 Frank Kells Boland published The First Anesthetic, tracing the history of Long's first discoveries and uses of anesthesia and calling for wider recognition of his achievements.

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