The museum explores physician Crawford W. Long's pioneering use of ether anesthesia during surgery in 1842. Historic medical instruments and reconstructed spaces turn a major medical milestone into a suitably strange stop centered on the history of pain, surgery and experimentation.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: exploregeorgia.org/jefferson/arts-culture/museums/crawford-w-long-museum