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  Crawford Long - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Crawford Williamson Long (November 1, 1815 – June 16, 1878) was an American physician and pharmacist.
Long subsequently removed a second tumor from Venable and used ether anesthesia in amputations and childbirth.
Long County, Georgia and Emory University's Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia are named in his honor.
www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Crawford_Long   (298 words)

  
 SMA: Southern Medical Association - CRAWFORD W. LONG, M.D.
Long's medical education continued at Transylvania University in Kentucky and at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, from which he was granted a medical degree in 1839.
Long was a sympathetic and understanding doctor and his desire to give his patients relief from the suffering of operative procedures gave him courage to perform the epochal operation which revolutionized the field of surgery and brought him immortal fame.
Long made no secret of his work: all of his surgeries were witnessed and known of by the physicians in the area.
www.sma.org /auxiliary/doctorsday/crawfordwlongmd.cfm   (605 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Crawford Long (1815-1878)
Crawford Williamson Long, a north Georgia physician, is credited as the discoverer of anesthesia.
There, Long had the opportunity to observe and participate in several surgeries, but these were harrowing experiences, as patients were not sedated and often experienced excruciating pain.
Long married Caroline Swain in 1842, and together they had twelve children, seven of whom survived to adulthood.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1227&pid=s-45   (915 words)

  
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Crawford Williamson Long was born on November 1, 1815, in Danielsville, GA, a small town 15 miles north of Athens, the home of the University of Georgia.
Long and Morton were not the only ones who claimed or were reported by others to have been the first to use anesthetic ether.
Long Proceedings in Statuary Hall of the United States Capitol upon the unveiling and presentation of the statue of Crawford W. Long by the state of Georgia.
www.arches.uga.edu /~rkthomas/LongSSPP.htm   (2870 words)

  
 Crawford Long
Crawford W. Long was born in Danielsville, Georgia on Nov.
While in college, Long had some experience with "ether frolics" and thought there was some possibility of the development of an anesthetic to lessen or remove the extreme pain surgery patients of his time had to endure.
Long continued to practice medicine in Athens until his death on June 19, 1878 from heart failure after just having delivered a baby.
www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/longbio.htm   (427 words)

  
 Crawford Williamson Long - People of Georgia
Crawford, a brother, and two sisters were brought up in the comfortable surroundings of a refined Southern household.
Crawford Long went through local schools, and at the age of 14 he was admitted to Georgia's Franklin College, which later became the University of Georgia.
Long noticed that people who were under the influence of the gas seemed to be oblivious to physical pain.
www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/ga_cwl.htm   (398 words)

  
 Crawford Williamson Long Biography / Biography of Crawford Williamson Long Main Biography
Crawford Williamson Long (1815-1878), American physician, is credited with the first use of ether as an anesthetic in a surgical procedure.
Crawford Long was born in Danielsville, Ga., on March 1, 1815.
Although Long is historically credited with the first use of ether, his delay in announcing his discovery lessened recognition for him and robbed him of a primary position in the discovery of modern anesthesia.
www.bookrags.com /biography-crawford-williamson-long   (510 words)

  
 Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics: Hospitals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Emory Crawford Long Memorial Hospital is a general community hospital with a physician staff made up of a combination of full­time Emory faculty and community physicians.
Crawford Long Hospital is a 553-bed facility located in midtown Atlanta.
Crawford Long Hospital is a 583-bed facility located in midtown Atlanta.
www.gynob.emory.edu /hospitals_crawfordlong.html   (204 words)

  
 LongEZ (N3R) Environmental Research Aircraft -Instrumentation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Eckman, R.M., T.L. Crawford, E.J. Dumas and K.R. Birdwell, 1999:
Crawford, T. McMillen and R. Dobosy, 1991: Description of a "generic" mobile platform using a small airplane and a pontoon boat.
Crawford, T. McMillen, T. Meyers, and B. Hicks, 1993: The spatial and temporal variability of heat, mass, and momentum air-sea exchange in a coastal environment.
www.noaa.inel.gov /Capabilities/longEZ   (5344 words)

  
 Imagining in Time -- February 1996, AANA Archives-Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Crawford W Long, MD, a physician and pharmacist, was the first to use ether anesthesia for painless surgery.
Crawford Long began his study of medicine in Jefferson (which is 20 miles from Athens and 60 miles northeast of Atlanta) with George Grant, MD. Traveling to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1837, he took his first course of lectures at the Medical Department of Transylvania University.
Crawford Long took no immediate steps to publicize his discovery, however, preferring to experiment until he was convinced of ether’s anesthetic properties, safety, and universal application.
www.aana.com /archives/imagine/1996/02imagine96.asp   (1745 words)

  
 Emory Crawford Long Hospital Atlanta, Georgia
Long was one of the great pioneers of medicine in this nation, as he was the first physician to ever use anesthesia during surgery (1842).
Founded in 1908, Emory Crawford Long Hospital is today, a 583-bed teaching and referral hospital, which provides tertiary care to the people of Atlanta, as well as to folks from the rest of Georgia, and other southern states.
Emory Crawford Long Hospital is nationally recognized as offering great medical care in specialty fields, which include: cardiology, reconstructive surgery, orthopedics, gastrointestinal disorders.
www.nurseuniverse.com /articles/Emory_Crawford_Long_Hospital.htm   (346 words)

  
 Emory WHSC :: Emory Crawford Long Hospital
A 511-bed community-based, tertiary care center in Atlanta's midtown, Emory Crawford Long Hospital is staffed by 710 Emory University School of Medicine faculty and 542 community physicians.
Emory Crawford Long Hospital's case-mix index (a measure of the complexity of illnesses treated) is higher than that of most community hospitals.
Emory Crawford Long's 20-story medical office and hospital facility opened in 2002, and a new building for radiation and medical oncology patients opened in 2003.
whsc.emory.edu /emory_crawford_long.cfm   (123 words)

  
 Crawford W. Long
Crawford W. Long, a quiet country doctor, was the first to discover the effect of ether and to use it in surgery.
Long moved to Athens, Georgia, acquiring a large practice and an apothecary shop.
Long died on June 16, 1878, of heart failure at the bedside of a mother who had just given birth.
www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/long_c.cfm?RenderForPrint=1   (232 words)

  
 Crawford Long, in its 90th year, has big celebration plans
Crawford Long's history was chonicled in the 1987 book, 75 Years Between the Peachtrees, by Lois Clendenen with Nancy Yarn, a longtime Crawford Long employee.
Crawford Long Hospital opened its doors as the 85-bed Davis-Fischer Sanatorium on Oct. 21, 1908.
Crawford Long is the site of many firsts having to do with babies and mothers.
www.emory.edu /EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/1998/March/ermarch.16/3_16_98CLcelebration.html   (810 words)

  
 Crawford Long Hospital Atlanta, Georgia (Hospitals)
Crawford Long Hospital of Emory University is a 583-bed community-based, tertiary care center in Atlanta's midtown.
Crawford Long is staffed by 561 community physicians and 483 Emory University School of Medicine faculty who are members of The Emory Clinic.
Crawford Long's case-mix index is higher than that of most community hospitals.
www.ohwy.com /ga/m/md110078.htm   (153 words)

  
 Crawford Long -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Crawford Williamson Long (November 1, 1815 – June 16, 1878) was an American (A licensed medical practitioner) physician and (A health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs) pharmacist.
He was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Danielsville) Danielsville, (Click link for more info and facts about Madison County) Madison County, (A state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Georgia.
(Click link for more info and facts about Long County, Georgia) Long County, Georgia and (Click link for more info and facts about Emory University) Emory University's Crawford Long Hospital in (Click link for more info and facts about Atlanta, Georgia) Atlanta, Georgia are named in his honor.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cr/crawford_long.htm   (305 words)

  
 WLM History Review 3:1
Long's medical education is discussed in the context of the evolving medical education of the day.
The impact of the ether controversy on Long's life is contrasted with its impact on the lives of the other principals in the controversy.
Long describes other anesthetics that he gave as experiments to satisfy himself that anesthesia was produced by ether and not by the effects of the imagination.
www.asahq.org /wlm/HistoryReview/vol3num1.html   (711 words)

  
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Crawford Williamson Long was born November 1, 1815, in Danielsville, Georgia, the son of James and Elizabeth Ware.
No nitrous oxide was available but Long offered sulphuric ether as a substitute, explaining to his friends that it was equally exhilirating and as safe as nitrous oxide.
Taylor, Dr. Long's daughter, regarding a paper he had read before the Royal Academy of Medicine, and glass plate photonegatives and one film negative, with corresponding photoprints, of a number of letters attesting to Dr. Long's use of sulphuric ether as an anaesthetic on approximate or specific dates.
americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d9120.htm   (741 words)

  
 Crawford Williamson Long   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Long’s accomplishments are probably the most visibly significant of any anesthetists.
Crawford Williamson Long is considered by many to be the discoverer of anesthesia.
Crawford Long was an extremely well educated and skilled physician by the ideals of his time.
web.bryant.edu /~history/h364proj/fall_99/kloster/long.html   (134 words)

  
 Nemschoff Healthcare Furniture :: Patient Room Case Study - Emory Crawford Long Hospital
Emory Crawford Long Hospital, a part of Emory Healthcare, is a 533-bed acute care teaching facility located in midtown Atlanta.
Crawford Long recently completed construction on a new 20-story building.
Because Crawford Long and HKS wanted the 11 labor and delivery rooms and 36 postpartum rooms to feel like "home," the radiant warmer and all support services in the room needed to be hidden.
www.nemschoff.com /case_emory.html   (419 words)

  
 CNN.com - Bush vacation puts spotlight on tiny Crawford - August 7, 2001
Crawford -- a one-stoplight town of about 700 -- is now the summer White House.
With all the media attention, there is another concern: Folks here say there is a misconception about their town -- "That we are all backwards, that we don't have a clue what is going on," Crawford resident Teresa Bowdoin said.
Bush is on what the White House calls a "working vacation," meeting with senior staff between time spent jogging and fishing on the 1,600-acre ranch.
archives.cnn.com /2001/ALLPOLITICS/08/06/bush.crawford   (413 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Crawford Long   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
William Thomas Green Morton (August 9, 1819 - July 15, 1868) was responsible for the first successful public demonstration of ether as an inhalation anesthetic.
Downtown Athens, as seen through the University of Georgia arch Athens or Athens-Clarke County is a city located in Georgia, U.S., in the northeastern part of the state, just off of Georgia 316.
Long County is a county located in the state of Georgia.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Crawford-Long   (894 words)

  
 Georgia Cancer Specialists | GCS On the Move: Crawford Long Clinic Moves to Better Space
Crawford Long Clinic Moved to Nicer Quarters to Better Serve Their Patients.
Doctors Daniel J. Carr and Laura L. Weakland are now found in the new doctors building at Crawford Long Medical Office Tower, 550 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 1185, Atlanta, Georgia 30308-2236.
The new GCS offices are part of the 400,000-square-foot medical office building that serves as a major component of the $270-million redevelopment project at Crawford Long.
www.gacancer.com /news/practice_news/crawford_long   (190 words)

  
 Middletown Borough - Borough Council - Meeting Minutes -  January 5, 2004
Moved by Culp, seconded by Long that the Secretary be directed to record unanimous appointments for Shirley Clouser and Becky Dolan to the Library Board, their terms to expire December 31, 2006.
Moved by Long, seconded by Reid that the Secretary be directed to record a unanimous appointment for William Schaefer to the Planning Commission, his term to expire December 31, 2007.
Moved by Long, seconded by Reid that the Secretary be directed to record a unanimous appointment for Octavia Duncan to the Civil Service Commission, her term to expire December 31, 2009.
middletownborough.com /Borough/minutes/04_01_05_council.asp   (1607 words)

  
 Emory Healthcare: new_crawford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
One of the largest hospital construction projects ever in the state of Georgia, Emory Crawford Long Hospital's $270 million redevelopment consolidates hospital and outpatient services, greatly increasing convenience and ease of access for patients and visitors.
Surrounded by lush greenery, seasonal color and tranquil water elements, the new Emory Crawford Long showcases a 20-story stone and glass exterior, with a welcoming three-story J. Mack and Nita Robinson Conservatory.
The redevelopment of Emory Crawford Long Hospital complements the visions of Central Atlanta Progress and the Midtown Alliance's Blueprint master plan to stimulate new development, provide direction for public improvements and enhance the pedestrian environment.
www.emoryhospital.com /departments/ECLH/sub_menu/new_crawford.html   (286 words)

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