Evening journal., 1915-08-09
MAKE JAW FROM RIB
N Paris HOSPITAL

Removal Of a rib TO make a jawbone
is an example of the extraordinary
operations which surgeons are forced
to perform on wounded French SOL
diers at the American Hospital in
Neuilly, France. Miss Leontjne A.
Cremerieux formerly of Philadelphia,
and now in the American Hospital,
has written a description of the work
at the institution to her sister, Mrs.
G. Dehm. who is in Atlantic City. DR..
William c. Speakman, Of Wilmington,
is an oral surgeon in that hospital.
Miss Cremerieux is well known in
Philadelphia. She was graduated
from the Medico-C -Chirurgical Hospital
in 1900. and was later chief nurse in
the Medico-Chirurgical Maternity
Hospital. She was district nurse in
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Wash
ington nurse in the Spanish-Ameri-
can War and nurse at the Ancon Hos
pital, Panama
Last summer she was the FIRST
American nurse TO take up duties in
Columbia, South America, where she
was stationed in a hospital founded
by a fruit company at Santa Marta.
Miss Cremerieux is a descendant OF
Captain Bartholomew Cremerieux,
an artilleryman who came to this
country with Lafayette and Rocham-
beau. and was wounded in the right
arm at the battle of Yorktown
THE sights in the wards are heart
wrenching' she writes from Neuilly
there are so many head injuries
Some men are horribly disfgured
their Jaws all shot off. One poor
creature has all his lower jaw gone
and part of his tongue-what is left
of his tongue hangs out of his for
mer mouth. He has had several oper-
ations. DR.. Blake is going to remove
a rib and make a jaw. Some of these
cases are operated upon several times
before they are at all presentable
and all the other amputations of arms
and legs are most fearful 10 lool
upon.
at seems that everyone is anxious
to do something for the wounded. W.
cannot tell who is who. as men anC
women of the highest station help II
the most menial manner. We have twf
orderlies Of noble birth There is one
nobleman who shaves all the men VIII,
need it in ward of as beds. In an
other ward a wealthy Partisan gen
tleman calls every day and does th'
barber act One wealthy New Yorl
gentleman is orderly in one of the op
Grating rooms. And not the least in
teresting is a colored gentleman mu
sician from Missouri who has jus
come. and is now stretcher man
carrying the operative cases from tn
wards "a the operating rooms.
II have been appointed housekeep
er. This is a hospital of sec beds
We are 100 nurses from all over th
globe. except. Of course, German ter
ritory. We have many. many auxil
iary nurses also-by this I mean Ia
dies Of the Red Cross and others
There are. about eighty ambulanc
men here. all of them qualified chaui
feurs. some women of wealth and pc
sition and just now many universit
men. Two nights ago about so
wounded were brought into Pari
twenty-six brought here Most Of tn
wounded are brought here during th
night. as / understand the author
ties have forbidden the ambulance
TO 60 through Paris during the da
/ understand it is done at night so tf
people will not become panic-stricke
The wounded coming ia at night a
operated on Immediately if necessar
There is an emergency operating roo
at the entrance, and the others are
the upper floors lycee Pasteur Il
former name of the building now occ
pied by the American Hospital) is a C,
lege which was partly finished when W
was declared. II was turned over to
committee. who turned it into a temp
rary hospital There is not an elevat
in the place. Patients, food and ever
thing must be carried from the cellar
the fourth floor. Yet am certainly FL
that ! am here and would not miss t
experience for anything. The work
hard. but everyone seems happy and ic
ous to be of help to humanity.
"As I have charge of the maids
often wish | could have mops al
mop wringers, and in the supply roo
they want rubber gloves-not the fl
kind but a little heavy and clos
fitting
The last two nights we we're
he steamer were the most grewsor
experience I felt like an old pira
stealing into . city to rob the peor
of their gold"