AV 46 George W. Crile Collection

              AV 46
George Crile Collection
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OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Manuscripts/ Audiovisual Collections
AV 46
George W. Crile Collection
1937
OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
Number:
AV 46
Title:
George W. Crile Collection
Creator:
George W. Crile
Dates:
1937
Media:
Lantern Slides
Quantity:
0.34 cubic feet
Location:
Ohio Historical Center
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE COLLECTION
George W. Crile was born to Michael and Margaret ( Deeds) Crile on November 11, 1864 near Chili, Ohio. He attended Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, graduating in 1884, and medical school at Wooster University in Cleveland, Ohio. Crile married Grace McBride on February 7, 1900.
In the 1890s he worked as a lecturer and professor at Wooster University and Western Reserve University. He also spent time studying medicine in Europe. In 1906 Crile performed the first successful blood transfusion from one human to another in the United States. By 1910 Crile was the Chief of Surgery at Lakeside Hospital and Clinical Professor of Surgery at the recently combined medical schools of Western Reserve University and the Wooster Medical College. He was a founding member of the American College of Surgeons, organized in 1912, and elected an honorary member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1913. During World War I Crile served in the U. S. Army. With colleagues from Lakeside Hospital, he formed U. S. Army Base Hospital 4, which accompanied the first detachment of the American Expeditionary Force to France.
Crile was one of the four founders of the innovative, non- profit research hospital the Cleveland Clinic, that opened on February 28, 1921.
An area of particular research interest for Crile throughout his career was the study of shock and its causes. During his long career of practicing medicine and scientific research Crile published twenty- four books and more than four hundred papers. He died in 1943 and is buried at Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
Sources:
“ George Crile.” Who Named It? . Online. Internet. 19 February, 2008.