George crile an autobiography of a penny

George Crile was born to a family of Dutch and Scottish-Irish descent, the fifth of eight children. He grew up on a farm near Chili, Ohio, and received his first schooling in a one-room school house two miles from his home.

George crile an autobiography of a penny

In 1881, aged 17 years, he entered Northwestern Ohio Normal School, later renamed Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Ohio. He worked his way through school by teaching in elementary schools.

After receiving a teaching certificate, he was appointed Principal of the Plainfield (Ohio) School.

Soon his interest turned to medicine, mainly as a result of his contacts with a local physician, Dr. A. E. Walker, who loaned him books and with whom he visited patients. Some of the events of this period are related in his autobiography, among them exciting details of "quilling" an obstetric patient by blowing snuff through a goose quill into her nose.

The sneezing that this induced led to prompt delivery of the baby.

In the spring of 1886 he entered Wooster