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Crawford Long

1815 - 1878

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Crawford Williamson Long (November 1, 1815 – June 16, 1878) was an American surgeon and pharmacist best known for his first use of inhaled sulfuric ether as an anesthetic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Crawford Long has received more than 226,925 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Crawford Long is the 451st most popular physician (down from 374th in 2019), the 4,536th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,617th in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Physician.

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  • 230k

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  • 51.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Crawford Long ranks 451 out of 726. Before him are Bernard de Jussieu, William Hunter, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Eva Klein, Constantin von Economo, and Harry Seeley. After him are Frances Oldham Kelsey, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, Ludwik Rajchman, Anastasia Golovina, and Ernst von Bergmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Crawford Long ranks 49. Before him are Ang Mey, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Mykhailo Verbytskyi, Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Robert Volkmann, and Johann Gottfried Piefke. After him are Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, Aleksandr Baryatinsky, James B. Francis, Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, and Alexander von Keyserling. Among people deceased in 1878, Crawford Long ranks 41. Before him are Mohammed bin Thani, Temistocle Solera, Andreas von Ettingshausen, Anna Sewell, George Cruikshank, and Cirilo Antonio Rivarola. After him are Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Josip Runjanin, Eugène Belgrand, August Heinrich Petermann, Dimitrios Voulgaris, and Adolf Fredrik Lindblad.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Crawford Long ranks 4,536 out of 20,380. Before him are Lewis Boss (1846), Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), Dorothy Gibson (1889), John Tate (1925), Jubal Early (1816), and Clyde Tolson (1900). After him are Nathanael Greene (1742), Donald Barthelme (1931), Howard Pyle (1853), Cotton Mather (1663), Holly Marie Combs (1973), and Augustine Washington (1694).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Crawford Long ranks 49. Before him are Gregg L. Semenza (1956), Philip Showalter Hench (1896), William Stewart Halsted (1852), Harvey Cushing (1869), Helen B. Taussig (1898), and William Kaelin Jr. (1957). After him are Charles Best (1899), Fernando J. Corbató (1926), George Huntington (1850), Benjamin Rush (1745), Frank H. Netter (1906), and Vivien Thomas (1910).

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