CRILE, GEORGE WASHINGTON ), Amer ican surgeon, was born in Chili, O., on Nov. II, 1864. He graduated at Ohio Northern university (1884), and in medicine at Wooster university in 1887. Later he studied in London, Vienna and Paris. He lectured and held various professorships at Wooster and Western Reserve universities (189o-1924) . He was a first lieuten ant in the U.S.A. Medical Reserve Corps during the Spanish American War ; a major with the Medical Officers Reserve Corps (1917-18) ; with the Lakeside Base Hospital Unit, U.S. Army, in service with the British Expeditionary Force in France; and senior consultant in surgical research (1918-19) . In June 1918 he was made lieutenant colonel, and in November of the same year, colonel.
He is author of Surgical Shock (1897) ; Surgery of Respiratory System (1899) ; Certain Problems Relating to Surgical Operations (i9oi) ; On the Blood Pressure in Surgery (1903) ; Hemorrhage and Transfusion (19o9) ; Anemia and Resuscitation (1914) ; Nature of the Emotions (1915) ; A Mechanistic View of War and Peace (1915) ; Man, An Adaptive Mechanism (1916) ; The Kinetic Drive (1916) ; A Physical Interpretation of Shock Exhaustion and Restoration (1921) ; The Thyroid Gland (with others) (1922) ; Notes on Military Surgery (1924) ; and A Bipolar Interpretation of Living Processes