Crawford Long (1815-1878). Bronze medallion bearing the image of the US surgeon and pharmacist Crawford Williamson Long anaesthetising a patient. Long

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Crawford Long (1815-1878). Bronze medallion bearing the image of the US surgeon and pharmacist Crawford Williamson Long anaesthetising a patient. Long is best known as the first physician to have administered diethyl ether as an anaesthesia for surgery.

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