New-York tribune., 1919-05-13
Would Garry On Methods of
Surgery Developed by
War and Provide Research
Work Outside Germany
Includes Cavell Memorial
Funds for Institution i'm
Brussels Partly Raised i'm
England; U. S. Aid Asked

u. Plans for league of hospitals in
allied countries, chief of which is to
80 memorial hospital to Edith Cavell,
in Brussels, we're announced last night
by Col. Antoine de Page, head of the
Belgian Red Cross, who is touring
America in the interests of the mem
arial hospitals. For nine years before
her seizure by the Germans Miss Cavell
was matron of DR.. De Pages private
clinic in Brussels, and later head of
the school for nurses which the sur
Eecn's wife established in the Belgian
capital.
Nine. De Page was drowned on the
Lusitania while taking relief funds to
Belgium from America. Her body was
washed ashore on the Irish coast and
buried on the beach at La Panne, four
miles back of the Belgian lines, where
Or. De Page had his headquarters.
In memory of Marie De Page and
Edith Cavell, both victims of German
warfare, it is planned to erect The
Edith Cavell-Marie De Page Hospital
in Brussels.
To Continue War Methods
It Is to be dedicated to the continue
ticn of the methods of surgery de-
veloped during the war. Surgeons from
Allied countries may go there for ad-
vanced research work instead of to
Germany as before the war. Allied
hospitals in other non-Teutonic coun-
tries will welcome research workers
from hospitals in the league.
Already the project has been
launched in Great Britain, where
Premier Lloyd George and Herbert
Asquith are sponsoring the British
memorial. In their tour of America,
which began at Boston and will take
them to the Pacific Coast, DR.. De Page
and his companion, Captain Joseph
Van de Velde, are interesting Ameri-
hospital project. No definite inter
national organization has yet ben eff
fected. but leading surgeons in Bel
GUM, Great Britain and America are
cooperating.
Fund Started in England
~The fund already started in Eng
land to defray half the cost of the
Brussels hospital" said Colonel De
Page last night at the WaldorfsAs-
tcria, "leaves half the cost to be borne
by my country. Belgium, however, is
naif, and it is my hope that | .wils be
able to interest America in this prot
The league of hospitals, while oper-
ating at all times for the advancement
s1 surgery in Allied countries, will at
she same time be barrier against Ger
man scientists, who are to be barred
from these Allied laboratories.
DR.: De Page is professor of surgery
at the University of Brussels. He
wears eight service bars. Indicating
four years of service with the Belgian
army He does not wear the eight AL
lied decorations, which have been be-
slowed upon him. Early n the war,
With the help of the American Red
Cross, ne built a larg, hospital at
vinckem, on the User, six miles from
fooihardy enterprise, which could be
wiped out by a small German advance.
but IN the Allied advance last Septem-
per and October this hospital was the
salvation of the Belgian army.
Some of His Successes
In this hospital his advanced sur
gical methods astounded the medical
vorlo Two weeks after amputation
wcunC ed soldiers were walking about
on ar iticial legs. DR.. DePage said last
nighgs that he personally knew of
many cases where men who had lost
an arm or two were at work with tools
fifteen days later
He explained that the muscles ad-
joining the artificial limb were utilized
before they had time to stiffen and
become useless.
DR.. DePage will explain some of the
technical features of his work and in
terest local surgeons in the interna-
tional league of hospitals at a o'clock
this afternoon at the New York Hos
pital, 8 West 18th Street. He will lee
ture tomorrow at Cornell University
before leaving for visits to Philadei-
phias Baltimore and Washington.