New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
LORENZ At ORTHOPEDIC
Operates and Lectures at annual
Meeting:
PROMINENT PEOPLE SEE HIM WORK

/ PROMINENT PEOPLE SEE HIM WORK
| The annual meeting of the New-York Ortho-
pedic Hospital held yesterday afternoon at
! the institution No. 126 East Fifty -ninth-st
Many prominent men and women were present,
and DR.. Adolf Lorenz was the guest of honor.
He performed operation and afterward lect-
ured to over two hundred people.
1t was 4:15 o'clock when the famous surgeon
arrived and hour before the reception
room was filed He at once proceeded to the
operating room, the top floor, where the pa
tlent Josephine Kehoe. three and half years
old, suffering from congenital dislocation OF
both hips had already been prepared for the
operation. 1t took only a few minutes
to complete the work and DR.. Lorenz said he
could predict perfect cure. In addition to the
surgeons who witnessed the operation, Mrs. John
r. Drexel, Mrs. Russell Sage. Miss Watson and
Mrs. Douglass Robinson. sister of President
Roosevelt were also present. DR.. Francis E
Butler-Dr Russell A Hibbs surgeon-n-chief of
the hospital, and Drs. Bogardus, Riley and
Heating assisted in the operation
While Dr.. Lorenz upstairs, o. Egerton
Schmidt president of the hospital addressed
| those assembled in the dispensary. which was
| used as lecture hall. His remarks were the
needs and purposes of the institution. and he
sketched its scope in a short talk Over three
thousand patients treated annually. and
sixty beds are maintained for house patients.
Mr.. Schmidt said. among other things:
This humane work is ever the increase. l
wish l might say the same of income,
the increase to the endowment fund, which has
only reached SSS000 of which $4,000 is pledged
conditionally on our raising the full amount of
! $500 900.
Somehow we find it almost impossible each
year to make the two ends meet, no matter in
what direction we extend our begging energies,
for beg we must, diStasteful as it may be.
ton, the secretary of the Board of Supervs-
ors. who reported that the provision for
continuing the instruction of patients had
been placed upon more substantial basis
by the establishment of regular school fund.
which permits of the employment of a regular
teacher. and allows the crippled patients to re-
ceive instruction while they remain in the hos
pital.
In the report of DR.. Russell A. Hihbs sur
geon-in-chief. it was stated that 3,I4J patients
were treated during the year ending September
80, 1902, which is an increase of 3Ji over last
year. Among the cases were twenty of con-
genital dslocation of the hip, which were treat
ed by the Lorenz method. and all successfully.
Dr. Abraham Jacob followed with an ad-
dress. in which he reviewed the work of many
of the great practitioners and included DR..
Lorenz one of them
The industrial expansion of time is max
| ing so many physical and intellectual cripples."
he said, that there Is great need of work OF
that kind
DR.. Virgil P. Gibney also spoke emphasizing
the need for institutions to for cripples
over the age at which they rejected as
patients at most of the hospitals for the de-
formed.
DR. Lorenz who was received with hearty ap-
plause said he would have to implore the kind
ness of those present If he misused their lam
guage. He had been too busy to prepare bet
ter speech he said. He spoke of the charitable
institutions of this country. which had inn
pressed him more than anything else here, and
declared that nowhere else in the world were
there such splendid hospitals maintained by
charity.
This New York Orthopedic Hospital repre-
sents the best kind of charity" he said. be
cause you take little crippled children and make
useful citizens of them. This hospital is 10 me
a very interesting one. 1t is known abroad as
we'll as at home, because of the name OF It's
founder. DR.. Fayette Taylor
Even before began to work in the ortho-
pedic surgery ] knew the name and work OF
Charles Fayette Taylor. We students regarded
that man as the incarnation of orthopedic sur
gerry.
American charity has made a forcible i'm
preston on me- and especially the works of
charity in this city and your own hospital NO
where in the world have l seen such wonderful
hospitals I can't help feeling envious since, in
NV country the conditions hard to work
under because we haven't the appliances
He congratulated all connected with the in
stitution and ended by especially congratulatinS
the women interested i'll its work
II congratulate especially the ladies'" he said
who are in this work because in every womans
breast beats a motherly heart
Among those present were Captain Richmond
Pearson Hobson. Mrs. Astor. Mrs. James n. Bur
den Mrs w. s. Cowles wife of Commander
Cowles L s N: Mr.. and Mrs W. j. Schieffelin,
Miss Louise Lee Schuyler. Mrs. John r. Drexel,
Mrs Russell Sage Miss Watson Mrs. Douglas
Robinson, Mrs. John B. Duer. Mrs Frank Min
turn and Miss Margaret Remsen. Mrs. r. Full
ton Cutting Miss c. De Forest. Mrs. Henry Z.
Howland Mrs. Henry MarQuand, Mrs White
law Reid Mrs William Robinson, Mrs William
y sloane Mrs. Marion Story Mr. and Mrs. Levi
P Morton and Mr.. and Mrs. c. n. Bliss.