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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 47

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Atlanta, Georgia
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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, April 4, 1975 3.1 EARS I ATLANTA Friday morning, and for the next USE YOUR RHODES CREDIT. USE YOUR BANK CHARGE CARDS! ig to sell), you'll be able to buy the Jt; Gojng-Out-Of-Business Sale sav- i "-f ww II I IUI uw 96V w'll just have to come see! And we John T. Fay FOUND ETHER 'Long Day'z Ji 3 Tuesday In Athens to it i It I if TJX ComHtntl SUt Newt Smto ATHENS The 133rd anniversary of the discovery -I of ether will be commemo- rated Tuesday at the Univer- sity of Georgia when the unl-T versity's School of Pharmacy holds its annual Crawford W. Long Day program. r-; John T.

Fay, vice president! for professional and govern- mental relations for McKes son and Bobbins Drug Co, will deliver the Rho Chi memorial lecture highlighting the program at 11 a.m. in the pharmacy school auditorium. -Fay's talk, entitled "Health- Care Trends in the United States," will emphasize gov ernmental' involvement in health care. Rho Chi, pharmacy honor society, sponsors Crawford W. Long Day each year in honor 3 of the Danielsville, native whose discovery of ether made possible modern surgi-" cal methods and is considered one of history's most impor tant medical advances.

Born Nov. 1, 1815, Long entered Franklin College (now the University of Georgia) when 'he was 14 and gradu- ated with an A.M. degree in 1835. He studied medicine at Transylvania University and the University of Pennsylva- nia, interned in New York 1 City and opened a medical, practice in Jefferson, in 1841. Long first used ether anes- thesia to prevent the pain of surgery on March 30, 1842, when he removed a cyst from the neck of James Venable.

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