Crawford Williamson Long belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Crawford Williamson Long as American physician (1815–1878).
Crawford Williamson Long was born at Danielsville in 1815. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Georgia.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are medicine.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Crawford Williamson Long died in 1878, aged 63. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: medicine
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