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Dr. Crawford W. Long, born in Danielsville, Madison Co., Ga., on Nov. 1, 1815, and died in Athens, Ga., on June 16, 1879, was credited as the first discoverer of anesthesia and as a great benefactor to the human race. On March 30, 1842, at Jefferson, Ga., he discovered sulphuric ether anesthesia and administered it to James M. Venable for the removal of a tumor. The monument was erected at Jefferson, Ga., on April 21, 1910 by the Jackson Co. Medical Society and unveiled by the Georgia Medical Association. It was given by Dr. Lamartine Griffin Hardman of Commerce, Jackson Co., Ga., in the name of his father and mother, Dr. B.J. Hardman and Mrs. E.S. Hardman, lifelong friends of Crawford W. Long, with Dr. B.J. Hardman being a physician in Jackson Co.
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