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Crawford Long

1815 - 1878

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Crawford Williamson Long (November 1, 1815 – June 16, 1878) was an American surgeon and pharmacist best known for his first use of inhaled sulfuric ether as an anesthetic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Crawford Long is the 439th most popular physician (up from 451st in 2019), the 4,551st most popular biography from United States (down from 4,536th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Crawford Long ranks 439 out of 726. Before him are Zilda Arns, Hilary Koprowski, Wilhelm Stekel, Realdo Colombo, Gazi Yaşargil, and Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke. After him are James Braid, Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Ernest Duchesne, Giorgio Biandrata, Antonio Bertoloni, and Dorotea Bucca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Crawford Long ranks 46. Before him are Ang Mey, George Averoff, Theophan the Recluse, Alexander von Keyserling, Seru Epenisa Cakobau, and Eduard August von Regel. After him are Temistocle Solera, Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, John McDouall Stuart, Louis Le Chatelier, and Johann Gottfried Piefke. Among people deceased in 1878, Crawford Long ranks 40. Before him are Đura Jakšić, Maurice Joly, Josip Runjanin, Anna Sewell, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, and August Heinrich Petermann. After him are Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Temistocle Solera, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, George Cruikshank, Eugène Belgrand, and Roberto de Visiani.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Crawford Long ranks 4,551 out of 20,380. Before him are Ray Bolger (1904), Carolyn Schuler (1943), Byron Scott (1961), B. J. Thomas (1942), Oliver Macdonald (1904), and Ruggiero Ricci (1918). After him are Tommy Aldridge (1950), Bruno Kirby (1949), Bix Beiderbecke (1903), Frank Elmore Ross (1874), Harry Hillman (1881), and Dick Button (1929).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Crawford Long ranks 51. Before him are Priscilla Chan (1985), Philip Showalter Hench (1896), Jack Kevorkian (1928), Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895), William Bates (1860), and Andrew Taylor Still (1828). After him are Deborah Birx (1956), Benjamin Rush (1745), Helen B. Taussig (1898), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), William Stewart Halsted (1852), and Alfred Blalock (1899).

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