March 31 is Take Down Tobacco National Day of Action
On Take Down Tobacco National Day of Action, youth advocates across the country rally together to stand up and speak
out against the tobacco industry. This is Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids’ signature day of youth advocacy.
However you decide to get involved, we encourage people of all ages to stand with kids over Big Tobacco
to continue pushing toward a healthier, more equitable future.
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LifeScience Moment: Ether used as surgical anesthetic for the first time
Dr. Crawford Long, an American physician and pharmacist in Jefferson, Georgia, used ether for the first time on March 30, 1842 to
remove a tumor from the neck of James M. Venable. Long subsequently removed a second tumor from Venable, and later used ether as an anesthetic in
amputations and childbirth. The results of these trials were published in 1848 in The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal.
Although Long is regarded as the first to have used an ether anesthesia in surgery, William T. G. Morton, an American dentist publicly
demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic on October 16, 1846 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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"Scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning."
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James Bryant Conant, U. S. Chemist and Educator
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