Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-30

and still permit Suff1cleht weight 10
| be transmitted through the shaft of
the bone to enable nature to do her
part of the work in forming and deep
ening the socket, which must so grasp
the head of the bone as to give it sup
port after the patient dispenses with
| the plaster.
Now it must not be thought that
| the application of this plaster is any
| secondary part of the treatment of
| these cases. The plaster cast must be
so strong as to hold firmly in the de-
| the cast must be worn that long. 1t
must be cushioned, too, and adjusted
so that il will not be source of dis
comfort to the patient.
81 believe it my duty to alleviate
all the suffering can, whether among
F., the rich or poor. If the rich pay a
princely fee it will allow ne to devote
more time to the poor"
DR.. Lorenz is just 4S years old. He
looks to be so. Probably his appear
ance of beifig advanced in age is due
to the fact that during his youth he
underwent the keenest privations in
order to follow the study of medicine.
| Il have known what it is to want
| bed and breakfast" he said
DR.. Lorenz left for San Francisco,
''just to see the country and to see a
patient or two" he said. 81 will be in
New York Nov. Is and home on Christ
mas" He will conduct nine clinics in
New York city.
One day Prof. LorenZ appeared in
clinic at the Northwestern University
before big assemblage of students
and physicians. He encountered a
most difficult case in Miss E. Hofen-
ritz, aged twenty, who suffered from a
badly dislocated leg covered by paral-
ysis. The limb was permanently bent,
and the muscles were in condition of
contraction. After the woman was put
under anaesthetics wise was attached
! to the limb and lever turned until
| the limb was righted. There was fur
Their manipulation and the limb was
placed in a plaster cast. The ankle
was then treated and the muscle de-
| tached by the knife, owing to strong
| development. The foot was straight
ened. Seven children were among
those treated, but only two were OPP
Grated upon.
! When j. Ogden Armour brought
Prof. Lorenz to Chicago and paid him
and his assistant, DR.. Mueller, fee of
| $150,000 for treating his little daugh-
ter, he did not dream of the good he
and his money were to do. Twenty
other tots whom unkind nature had
sent into the world with dislocated
! joints appealed to the surgeon. They
had no money and little hope. In three
clinics he Strengthened the deformed
limbs of these twenty children. If he
had received fees for these twenty op-
/, erations similar to that which Mr.. Ar
mour gladly paid he would have taken
| S3,000,000, or the comfortable sum of
SO, 100000 for the week. The largest
| clinic-and it was the largest ever
held in Chicago-was in the amphi-
theater of the county hospital. There
were 1000 physicians, students, sur
geons and medical authorities present.
Many of the physicians came from
towns hundreds of miles away.
II never appeared before so large a
! clinic" said Prof. Lorenz when the
last patient had been wheeled out.
1--WE are poor in Austria and do not
thing is so vast il America-so large.
The proportion of females in con-
genital hip dislocations has been esti-
mated at 80 per cent. OF the twenty
operated upon, sixteen we're girls.
In action Prof Lorenz is rapid and
shows evidence of great strength,
which he needs in his operations. He
came into the amphitheater carrying
his first little patient in his arms.
After showing the peculiar walk which
these patients have, he spoke few
words about the technique of his oper-
ton, while the child was being anaes-
! thetized.
His technique of reduction has sew
eral distinct steps. If the Gislocation
is complete-that is, if the head of the
femur is entirely out of the cavity
he grasps the child's ankle and pulls
down in the long axis of the body
This serves to bring the head of the
femur approximately opposite its nor
NAL resting place, as the weight of the
child in walking always drives the
bone upward. The child is then firm
ly held by an assistant and the knee
is bent out as far as possible from the
body. While It is held in this posi-
ton the muscles which pull the leg in
toward the body, and which have be
come permanently shortened by years
of false position, are fairly rubbed off
their attachment to the felour by deep
massage. The muscles on the back of
the leg are freed and heightened in a
similar manner by torcible overexten-
sion of the knee joint.
The joint is now loose and the actu-
al placing of the head of the bone in
position seems easy enough. After the
femu in position the anterior part
of tn lint capsule is heightened by
using the head Of the bone as a