Crile is now formally recognized as the first surgeon to have succeeded in a direct blood transfusion.

from Wooster Medical College which merged to form modern day Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

[6] During the Spanish–American War, he was made a member of the Medical Reserve Corps and served in Puerto Rico (1898).

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 1917.

[2] When he retired from the Medical School at age 65, Crile went into private practice and worked with those establishing the new Cleveland Clinic.