This Day in History Class

Dr. Crawford Long first used ether anesthesia / Meter defined - March 30


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Crawford Long, a doctor in Georgia, became the first to use inhaled ether anesthesia in surgery on this day in 1842. / On this day in 1791, the French National Assembly accepted a proposal by the French Academy of Sciences to define the meter. 

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