March 30

Crawford Williamson Long was born in Danielsville, Georgia in the early years of the 19th century. He would survive infancy and go on to become a physician, surgeon, and pharmacist. One of his patients, the unfortunate James M. Venable came to him with a rather nasty tumor growing on his neck (Venable’s neck, not Long’s). On the 30th in 1842, Dr. Long removed the tumor in the first operation using general anesthesia, a feat that was in all likelihood greatly appreciated by Mr. Venable.
John Henry ‘Doc’ Holiday, renowned in the Old West (Why do they call it the Old West? Duh, it happened in the west and it happened a long time ago, so its old.), was a man with a lot of talent. He was a dentist, a gambler and a gunfighter. He was also Long’s cousin.