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| | Photograph Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | George Washington Crile Family Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Crile, George Washington Family | | | | Dates: | 1889-1920 | | | | Abstract: | George Washington Crile (1864-1943) was an internationally-known surgeon and co-founder of the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. He was also a respected medical scientist whose research and writings included surgical shock, glandular function, blood pressure and transfusion, shell shock, and the effects of wartime surgery. He served in the Army Medical Corps during the Spanish American War. During World War I, he was surgical director at the American Ambulance Hospital in Neuilly, France. In 1917, he organized and trained medical personnel from Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, who then served at United States Army Base Hospital No. 4 in Rouen, France. In 1921, he co-founded the Cleveland Clinic, serving as president (1921-1940) and as a trustee (1921-1936). In 1913, Crile helped found the American College of Surgeons, and was a member and officer not only of that organization, but also of the American Medical Association, American Surgical Association, Royal Academy of Surgeons, and the Royal Academy of Medicine. The collection consists of six albums and two containers of loose photographs. Subjects included are photographs of the Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery, members, and relatives at an unknown location ca., 1900; 3 albums owned by Ella T. Wright of views of trips through New England in 1889, to Great Brewster Island, Massachusetts, in 1890, and aboard the steamer Japan through the Great Lakes in 1890; an album containing views relating to the Spanish American War taken by George W. Crile including scenes aboard the troop transport U.S.S. Yale, scenes of the Puerto Rican campaign, and photographs of Puerto Rican natives; five enlargements of Puerto Rican operations photographs from the previous album; photographs of the Cleveland Lakeside Hospital Unit at the United States Army Philadelphia Base Hospital, 1916; the Lakeside Hospital Unit primarily at Army Base Hospital No. 4, Rouen, France, ca. 1917-1920, including personnel, buildings, living conditions, and general scenes; charts and cartoons relating to the Lakeside Hospital Unit; photographs of wounds and wounded cared for by the Lakeside Hospital Unit in France, ca. 1917-1918; charts and photographs of hospital apparatus used during World War I; photographs relating to shell shock experiments conducted by Dr. Crile during World War I; photographs relating to an unidentified medical experiment; photographs of an anti-war nature; photographs relating generally to France and World War I, ca. 1917-1918; and printed material relating to Dr. Crile's medical photographs. | | | | Call #: | PG 015 | | | | Extent: | 1.50 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Crile, George Washington, 1864-1943 -- Photograph collections. | Crile family -- Photograph collections. | Wright, Ella T. -- Photograph collections. | Crile, Grace -- Photograph collections. | United States. Army. Base Hospital No. 4 -- Photograph collections. | Military Hospitals -- France -- Photographs. | Physicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Medicine -- Research -- United States -- Photographs. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- Photographs. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals -- Photographs. | War neuroses -- Photographs. | Surgery, Military -- Photographs. | Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Photographs.
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