Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #66: Crawford Long (1815-1878) and William Morton (1819-1868) Crawford Long (1815-1878) and William Morton (1819-1868) were American physicians who are founders of anesthesiology for independently using general anesthesia induced by ether. Prior to the discovery and use of anesthesia, surgery was torturous on the patient, often leaving him or her psychologically traumatized because of the pain and fear experienced. Not surprisingly, people often avoided surgery at their health’s peril. Morton and Long, however, transformed surgery into a painless procedure. In addition, a patient under anesthesia did not move violently because of pain, allowing for higher quality surgery and better outcome for the patient. Morton and Long’s contribution was essential in making possible modern medicine and its magnificent life-saving ability. Go to #67: John Rockefeller Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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