The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-01

angles to the body
The bandages were wrapped from the
knee joint on each limb up and around
the body to the thickness of more than
of the body in solid and immovable
cast DR.. Mueller did the bandaging
and as soon as that had been COM
pieted the operation was over. Not a
drop of blood had been spilled and no
knife had been used save TO cut away
surplus bandage.
Operation Is Complete.
Now the operation is complete said
Dr. LorenZ, and the boy will be all
right. 1t may be year or more before
he can walk, but in time he will be able
to run like a hare. This cast must re-
! main on the child about six months. In
that time the femur will have formed
its attachments TO its proper socket,
and the next thing to do after the cast
! is removed is to get the legs back into
their proper positions. This must be
done gradually. The muscles must be
massaged and the limbs bent towards a
parallel position. gradually. AT first
the boy will only be able to hobble
along stiffiy. but his limbs viii gradu-
ally Timber and in less than two years
he should be able to walk and run
as we'll as any one, that is, if nothing
unexpected happens"
The child was then lifted from the
operating table and given into the arms
of the overjoyed father, whose feeling
was too great for expression. The
child was carried to the mother, who
had been too much overcome TO wit
ness the operation, and tears of Joy
rolled down her cheeks. The child will
be left at the hospital for some time
I to be cared for by the physicians and
nurses there.
AS soon as the operation had been
completed little Muril Rausch was
placed under the anaesthetic and oper-
aGed upon in the same manner as the
| boy The doctor was timed in the last
operation and it took him just a little
more than one minute to reduce the
dislocation OF course it took some
| time longer to massage the muscles
| and bandage the .hsnh. Tho child was
then given into the arms of her hap.
father and mother and was then left
at the hospital for care for a time.
Such Cases Are Rare.
DR.. Lorenz, when operating upon the
little girl stated that cases of congeni-
tai hip dislocation were rare, but that
| the majority of them were found in
! girls. 1t seemed to be a misfortune
particularly peculiar to the female sex,
! he stated.
While the first operation was being
performed a young boy of about II
room and stood at the foot of the oper-
ating table carefully watching every
| detail of the operation. When the oper-
alton had been finished he looked up
| into the face of DR.. Lorenz, and hob
Hing towards him, asked in the most
pitiful tones if the surgeon could do
anything for him. DR.. LOrenz looked
| for moment at the boy and then ex-
amined his limb.
The LAD was suffering from some
other aument than hip diSlOcation and
the doctor told him that he could do
, nothing for his case. At the words the
boys head dropped and as he turned
and hobbled out of the room on his
| crutches, the tears rolling down his sun
| Drowned cheeks. Dr.. LOrenZ followed
! the boy out of the room, but had no
sooner reached the hall than several
mothers seized his arm and begged him
to look at the cases of their children.
The doctor looked at each one OF them,
but finding other diseases, was forced
to tell the mothers that he could do
nothing for their children.
DR.. Lorenz Complimented.
| After the operation the doctor was
| surrounded by the various physicians
and he was most highly complimented
! upon the success of his operations. The
/ doctor only lamented the conditions
that prevented his performing more
operations DR.. Lorenz in explaining
congenital dislocation and his method
of reducing it said;
'Congenital dislocation of the hip
| joint is one of the rarest deformities,
but is also one of the most serious. 1t
| is caused by a displacement of the hip
| joints of the child before BIRTH On each
side of the pelvis is a rounded socket.
into which should fit the spherical head
of the femur or thigh bone.
In cOngenitaI dislocation this socket
is often absent or is filled up with
gristle and bony growth Instead of
fitting in its proper place the head of
the femur rests against the broad bone
of the pelvis several inches back of its
normal position and is twisted so that
the feet of the patient turn outward.
ITO reduce this the muscles must be
thoroughly stretch I'd and torn loose so
that the femur can be pressed into its
! natural socket Then the leg must be
held in this position until the femur has
had time to form it's new attachments
to the socket, which requires six or
more months. After that the leg must
be gotten by degrees into its proper
position and the muscles made elastic
/ by massage.
Il am giving these free exhibitions"
said the doctor. so that the American
physicians may learn the operation and
relieve suffering humanity. / do II for
the sake of the sufferers
Doctors Are Impressed.