George Washington Crile

24 featured booksGeorge Washington Crile

George Washington Crile was raised on a farm near Chili, Ohio, and educated in a one-room school house near his home. In 1881, he went to Northwestern Ohio Normal School (now Ohio Northern University) in Ada, Ohio. He worked his way through school by teaching in elementary schools, and he became interested in medicine. In 1886 he went to Wooster Medical College (now Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine) in Cleveland, graduating in 1887 with his M.D. After his internship, he entered private surgical practice, and became primarily interested in the study of shock. From 1889-1900, he taught at the University of Wooster, and from 1900 at the Western Reserve University. He went abroad, to Vienna and London in 1892 and 1895, for further study. In 1897 he won the Cartwright Prize from Columbia University for his paper "An Experimental Research into Surgical Shock," which became his first book when it was in 1899. In 1903, he published his studies in shock and blood pressure during operations in the book Blood Pressure in Surgery. He also revealed a "pneumatic rubber suit " he had invented to decrease postural hypotension in neuro surgical patients, and his invention was used in the second world war to prevent pilots from blacking out and during the Vietnam war to stabilise patients with haemorrhagic shock. In 1906, he performed the first successful blood transfusion from one human to another in the United States. In 1910 he was appointed Clinical Professor of Surgery of the newly-amalgamated Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He was also Chair of Surgery at that school's teaching hospital, Lakeside Hospital, which he had helped establish. In 1913 he was elected an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. During the World War I, he organised U.S. Army Base Hospital 4, largely from Lakeside Hospital, which was the first detachment of the American Expeditionary Forces to arrive in France, in 1917. He wrote a book about the war, A Mechanistic View of War and Peace (1917). After the war, he continued to work in private surgical practice. In 1921, along with other doctors in his practice, he established non-profit Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and he became its director. The foundation burnt down in 1929 when some x-ray films in the basement caught fire. Crile published 24 books and more than 400 papers. In addition to being the first surgeon to have performed a direct blood transfusion, he contributed to many other aspects of medicine, including neck dissection, the design of a haemostatic forceps called the Crile mosquito clamp, and the development of an anaesthetic technique known as balanced anaesthesia.

Search this author Open first work

OL172856A

Overview

Catalog identity and bibliographic footprint for this author.

24 representative editions

Author pages in Bookitis are intended to show only works actually attributed to the author and a representative edition for each of those works.

Catalog identity

How this author appears inside the active Bookitis catalog.

Display name
George Washington Crile
Personal name
George Washington Crile
Source identifier
OL172856A

Featured books

Representative editions for works actually authored by this person.

Works in catalog

Quick navigation into the work-level grouping pages behind the featured books.

Kinetic Drive
Representative edition published 2022
Open Work
The Thyroid Gland
Representative edition published 2018
Open Work
Hemorrhage And Transfusion
Representative edition published 2015
Open Work
Oliver Twist
Representative edition published 2003
Open Work
The origin and nature of the emotions
Representative edition published 1970
Open Work
Intelligence, power and personality
Representative edition published 1941
Open Work
The phenomena of life
Representative edition published 1936
Open Work
The phenomena of life
Representative edition published 1936
Open Work
Diseases peculiar to civilized man
Representative edition published 1934
Open Work
Diagnosis and treatment of diseases of thyroid gland
Representative edition published 1932
Open Work
Frank Emory Bunts
Representative edition published 1932
Open Work
The bipolar theory of living processes
Representative edition published 1926
Open Work
A physical interpretation of shock, exhaustion, and restoration
Representative edition published 1921
Open Work
Surgical shock and the shockless operation through anoci-association
Representative edition published 1920
Open Work
The fallacy of the German state philosophy
Representative edition published 1918
Open Work
The kinetic drive
Representative edition published 1916
Open Work
Man-an adaptive mechanism
Representative edition published 1916
Open Work
A mechanistic view of war and peace
Representative edition published 1916
Open Work
A mechanistic view of war and peace
Representative edition published 1916
Open Work
Anoci-association
Representative edition published 1915
Open Work
Anemia and Resuscitation: An Experimental and Clinical Research
Representative edition published 1914
Open Work
Anemia and resuscitation
Representative edition published 1914
Open Work
Anoci-association
Representative edition published 1914
Open Work
Phylogenetic association in relation to certain medical problems
Representative edition published 1910
Open Work