Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2248

GEORGE WASHINGTON CRILE (1864-1943) Anoci-association. W. B. Saunders 1915 [2] [7]-259 pp., plates (1 fold.), illus. (part col.), charts, diagrs. 23.2 cm.

Crile, a native Ohioan, studied medicine at Wooster University in Cleveland, Ohio where he graduated in 1887. After postgraduate medical studies in Europe, he returned to join the faculty at Western Reserve University in Cleveland where he advanced through the academic ranks to become clinical professor of surgery in 1900. He retired in 1924 in order to found and direct the Cleveland Clinic. His contributions to surgery include the development of many surgical techniques and important studies on the surgical treatment of arterial hypertension, blood transfusion, shock, and anoci-association. Crile and Lower's purpose was to make "the most practical presentation possible of the technique of anoci-association" (Preface). Anoci-association was an important step in the development of modern surgical anesthesia and involved pain control, transfusion, and fluid replacement. In Part I of the book they present a statement of the kinetic theory of shock, the principle of anoci-association, and a summary of experiments, some of which had previously been published. The application of the kinetic theory in surgical operations is discussed in Part II. The work was first published in July 1914 and this is the third reprinting of January 1915. Crile's coauthor, William Edgar Lower, was associate professor of genitourinary surgery at Western Reserve University. The book was edited by Amy Farley Rowland (b. 1872).