First general anaesthesia
- Who
- Dr Crawford Williamson Long
- What
- First
- Where
- United States (Jefferson,Georgia)
- When
- 30 March 1842
Dr Crawford Williamson Long (USA)(1815-78) removed a cyst from the neck of James Venable (USA), using diethyl ether (C2H5)2O, in Jefferson, Georgia, USA on 30 March 1842.