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Georgia Doctor Long Honored in National Hall of Fame Statue
A Georgia physician, Crawford Williamson Long of Danielsville and Jefferson, is celebrated as the discoverer of anesthesia for painless surgery. A March 1842 ether operation and subsequent memorials mark his pioneering work, with Georgia leaders unveiling a marble statue in Washington’s Hall of Fame.
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Proehl Haller Jakson ‘Dd
Stattary
Hall of Fame
Crawford Williamson Long
Georgia
Doctor Long
Clifford Walker
Washington
J. Massey Rhind
Congress
Harris
Massachusetts
William T. G. Morton
Boston
Atlanta
University of Pennsylvania
Jefferson
Junckeon County
Georgia State University of Athens
Republic of France
South
Edward VII
Wno
Crawford Long
Sickan
James
Elizabeth Ware Long
Danielsville
Franklin College
University of Georgia
New York
Jackson County
Medicheingefferson
James M. Venable
Long
Venable
James Venable
C. W. Long
W.I. G. Morton
T. Jackson
Massachusetts General Hospital
J. C. Warren
Morton
East
Doctor Morton
William O. Dawson
Jackson
Doctor Lone
J. Marion Sims
Virginia Medical Society
Horace Wells
French Academy
Ilke Wells
Aing