"First Blood Transfusion" George W Crile Signed TLS Dated 1901 Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction the "First Blood Transfusion" George W Crile Hand Signed TLS Dated 1901.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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George Washington Crile
(November 11, 1864 in Chili, Ohio – January 7, 1943 in
Cleveland, Ohio
) was an
American
surgeon. Crile is now formally recognized as the first surgeon to have succeeded in a direct
blood transfusion
.
He contributed to other procedures, such as
neck dissection
. Crile designed a small hemostatic forceps which bears his name; the Crile mosquito clamp. He also described a technique for using opioids, regional anesthesia and general anesthesia which is a concept known as balanced anesthesia. He is also known for co-founding the
Cleveland Clinic
in 1921. Crile graduated from
Ohio Northern University
in 1885,
and in 1887 received his
M.D.
from Wooster Medical College which merged to form modern day
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
. He did further study at Vienna, London and Paris. He taught at Wooster from 1889 to 1900. He was professor of clinical medicine at Western Reserve University from 1900 to 1911, and was then made professor of surgery.
He was chair of surgery at
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
from 1910 to 1924,
and established its Lakeside Hospital.
During the
Spanish– American War
, he was made a member of the Medical Reserve Corps and served in
Puerto Rico
(1898). He was made an honorable
F.R.C.S.
(London) in 1913. After America entered
World War I
, he became a major in the medical O.T.C., and professional director (1917–18). He served with the B.E.F. in France and was senior consultant in surgical research (1918–19). He was made lieutenant-colonel in June 1918, and colonel later in the year.
He made important contributions to the study of
blood pressure
and of shock in operations. Realizing that any strong
emotion
, such as fear before operation, produced shock, he attempted to allay dread by psychic suggestion, also endeavouring to prevent the subjective shock which affects the patient, even when under general
anaesthesia
, by first anaesthetizing the operative region with
cocaine
for several days, if necessary, before operating. Thus nerve communication between the affected part and the brain was already obstructed when the general anaesthetic was administered. For his work in shockless surgery he received a gold medal from the National Institute of Social Sciences in 1914.
Crile is the author of
A Mechanistic View of War and Peace
, published in 1917.
He also wrote
Surgical Shock
(1897),
On the Blood Pressure in Surgery
(1903),
Hemorrhage and Transfusion
(1909),
Surgical Anemia and Resuscitation
(1914),
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions
(1915),
Man an Adaptive Mechanism
(1916),
The Fallacy of the German State Philosophy
(1918),
The Surgical Treatment of Hypertension
(1938) In World War II, the United States
liberty ship
SS
George Crile
was named in his honor. The
lunar crater
Crile
is also named after him. He is buried in
Lake View Cemetery
in Cleveland, Ohio.
His son
George Crile, Jr.
was also a surgeon. His grandson
George Crile III
was a journalist, author, and CBS producer. His wife, Grace Elizabeth (McBride) Crile (1876–1948), was a descendant of Lydia (Reed) McBride, sister of
David Reed
.