Crawford Long was an american scientist that discovered surgical anesthesia. He was a very good man with a great personality and a superb education. Unfortunately, long did not receive credit for his discovery of surgical anesthesia until later after he died. Crawford Long totally changed the way a patient is affected by surgery. A peace treaty was signed between the British and American government in 1814, which ended the war of 1812. Long, fortunately, was born into a peaceful world at the time, thanks to the end of the war of 1812. This war came back to bite them in the butt. When Crawford was about 4 he experienced the first financial crisis in the United States. Some say that one of the causes of this financial crisis is having to…show more content… The kids had to take turns bringing firewood, or sometimes the town would donate firewood. They didn’t have the medicine that we have today either. They had healing herbs as medicine. When they went to the grocery store all they could get was sugar, flour, and coffee. They grew a lot of their food that they had. They also had to slaughter animals to make food. You had to be able to make your own clothes as well. Everyone bathed in the same basin of water, but they just rinsed off they didn’t wash very well. They also spent most of the day at church on sunday. In the 1800s, which was the time Crawford Long was alive, you had to do almost everything by…show more content… He was born to James and Elizabeth Long. James was a wealthy merchant and Elizabeth was a planter. They lived in Jefferson county, Georgia. Long was an only child.When Crawford was 14 he used resources at a local academy and applied to the University of Georgia. Long earned his A.M degree from UGA in 1835. While he attended the university he met his lifelong friend Alexander Stephens, who went on to serve as vice president of the confederacy during the civil war. After his graduation from UGA, Long served as the principle for a school in Danielsville while studying medicine with a doctor. In 1836 Long decided to go back to school to further extend his education. He went to the Medical Department of Transylvania college in Lexington, Kentucky.While he was there he studied under Benjamin Dudley. He was involved in many surgerys and took note of the effects of not using effective anesthesia. Two years later he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. In 1839 he earned his medical degree. Next, he went to New
