Crile

“Although serious accidents resulting in lacerations and contusions necessitating amputations, setting of fractures, excisions of eyes, drainage of hematomas and trephining were daily occurrences. I am surprised in reviewing old records of this time to find that I also dealt with cancer of the breast, removed papillomas, carcinomas, sarcomas and epitheliomas, performed laparotomies and tracheotomies, and every type of gynecological operation, besides operating upon the usual hernias, hemorrhoids, colloid goiters, cystic goiters, which we treated with galvanic puncture. “But it was the cases of shock that haunted me like evil shadows” (Crile, I, 39-40 and on range of contradictory approaches to surgical shock ca. 1896, 83).