The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-15
DR.. LORENZ OPERATES HERE.
TWO GIRLS Ar A PRIVATE HOS
PITAL HIS FIRST PATIENTS.


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Doctor Sees New York In sleigh and
Goes To . COnccrt-His clinic To-day.
DR. Adolph LorenE, the eminent Vienna
specialist, who came TO America to operate
on the Armour child at Chicago for con-
genital hip disease, spent yesterday morn
Ing In putting back through his marvel
lois skill the limbs OF two children in this
city deformed from birth. In tho after
noon he derived pleasure from the sights
Of the metropolis which a sleigh ride
through the park and up Riverside Drive
afforded him. In the evening he attended
a concert for the benefit of the German
hospital at Carnegie Hall.
The two operations took place at DR..
II. W. Carter's private hospital. las East
Thirty-fifth street. One was on a child
u years Of age. 1t was unusual, inSsmuch
as DR. Lorenz's patients thus far in this
country had all been below the age Of
. years.
The child Is Gertrude Mcpherson of $50
West ilist street, daughter Of an advertis-
ing man. The other child upon whom
DIR. Lorenz operated Us Lizzie Hyman.
the daughter Of poor parents. She Ia only
S years old and was a comparatively easy
subject.
Both operations were declared TO be
successful SO far a. could be- judged.
The programme prepared for DR. LOrenz's
Sunday in New York by DR.. Virgil Gibney.
to whom the arrangements for his visit
here have been left. did not include the two
operations performed yesterday. DR.. Glib
ev. DR. Newton NJ Shai1er and other
orthopedists Interested in his visit had
L al. A. r.
rest and pleasure.
DIR. Lorenz. because of the exacting calls
upon his skill at the different places which
he visited before coming here. broke down
partly in Baltimore, and In Philadelphia
the other day his wrist gave out after an
operation OIL a child whose lgaments proved
20 strong that it made it one of the mort
difficult cases he has attended.
DR.. Lorenz did not elect to spend the day
In professional idleness. especially when Dr.
D. D. Ashley. his former pupil informed
him OF some interesting cases and asked
him Il least to look at them.
DR.. Ashley Is the only physician in this
city who has studied under DR. Lorenz
In his hospital In Vienna. and he is said to
be the one who induced DR.. LorenE to re-
spond TO the call from Mr. Armour. DR..
Ashley came over here with DR.. Lorenz
and after going to Chicago with him re-
turned to prepare some private cases for
him.
Seven children suffering from congenital
hip disease were placed In the private
hospital by DR.. Ashley on Saturday. and II
was These whom he requested DR.. Lorenz
to look at yesterday morning.
DR.. Lorenz, after ESTABLISHING with DR..
Homer p. Gibney and DR.. Reginald Sayre
at the Holland House. proceeded with his
assistant. DR.. Muller, to DR.. Carter's hos
pital. There DR.. Ashley. DR.. Carter. Dr.
Charles OGilvy and several other physicians
were waiting for him. After taking OF his
fur-lined overcoat he went at once to the
operating room on the top floor.
DR.. Lorenz looked over the cases one by
ono and finally picked out the Mcpherson
child and the Hyman child as the ones he
would operate on personally. While DR..
Ashley, after an examination Of the McPher-
son child. believed that It was a case that
POSSIBLY could be cured. yet he was not 80
sure that DR.. Lorenz would concur with him
in his diagnosis.
The child vas first put under the infiu-
ence Of an anesthetic. administered by DR..
carter. Then DR.. Lorenz put on q long
operating gown. barred his arms to the elbow,
his assistant doing the same, and went to
work. AS was expected because Of tho
childs age. 1t proved to be a difficult task.
and il took twenty minutes of dexterous
pulling and twisting, in which great force
had to be used. to get the limb into place.
There was loud snap as the bone slipped
into it's socket.
The other physicians looked on with
amazement at the exhibition OF strength
and dc ,erity which Prof Lorenz. who in
physical giant, put up. As he performed
the turns needed to get the limb into place
he explained his movements.
Dr.. Lorenz showed tie spectators how
10 bandage the limb. First a s,ockinette
was put on the leg from the knee to the
hip. then a wrapping Of cotton. and outside
OF this the plaster Of paris bandages. The
leg will have to be kept this way for nine
months in this case, but in the cases Of
younger children the time is only six
months. The girl. however. can walk
in The meantime. DR.. Lorenz showed how
he measurements should be taken for the
shoe.
After the operation the surgeon opened
window and took some long breaths
Of fresh air. at the same time feeling Of
his wrist which still gives him little dis
comfort.
Then the Hyman child was brought In.
This operation was a much easier one.
although il was performed in exactly the
same way as the other, 1t was over in
leas than fifteen minutes,
The father Of the Mcpherson child was
waiting in the reception room, and he was
10 overjoyed when he was told that the
ope alton had been successful that lie was
scarcely able TO speak.
In the operations DR.. Lorenz used his
elbow several times in place Of his hand,
~ as to save his wrist. He said after
ward that his wrist was fast getting we'll
and that he did not expect IL would seri-
o,isly discomfort him to-day, when he IL
to operate at the Hospital for the Ruptured
and Crippled before some Of the most emil
nent surgeons Of New York
Dr.. Lorenz, after a short walk with DR..
Miller on Fifth avenue, returned to tho
Holland House and inscribed in his diary
n record Of the events Of the morning. One
Of the reasons for this. ne explained. was
the interest which his wife takes in his