The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-19
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FIVE years Of existence. The incubator
incident at the very dawn of her life
IS estimated 10 have caused an expendi-
ture Of more than $1,000.
All through the first years Of the baby S
life it had constant ATTENDANCE of the
best that could be secured in America.
In those anxious years no less than an
other so, 600 must have been spent in fees
and nursing.
Then came the first operation, with its
months of constant attention, ard medical
men say that so critical and delicate an
undertaking could not have cost less
than $4,000.
Now comes the second operation. for
which in fees alone, SIS, 600 is said TO have
been practically promised 10 the learned
German physicians
The baby mediator was invented by
Alexander Lion, a French Medium man,
about 1894
Its purpose is to furnish suitable con-
ditions for development OF babies born
prematurely. Under ordinary conditions
these little mites soon die. for they lack
vitality, their immature organisms are
unable to resist the effects OF atmospheric
changes; they do not breathe in enough
air to develop the functional activity,
and the tissues of their small bones rap
idly oxidize.
The incubator furnished constant tenn
perature and degree of moisture and the
perfect rest required for the baby's health
and growth.
scientific sysem OF feeding has been
evolved. and now it is a common thing
for babies born more than three months
before the proper time to be brought
te maturity apparently as strong and well
| developed as the normal infant
An incubator that was partly success
4 full, but which was but a crude model
of the scientific apparatus IN use today
was used by Prof. Denuce, of Bordeaux,
France in 1857.
The operation which ]. Ogden Armour
brought Prof. Adolf Lorenz five thou
sand miles to perform Is not a new one.
| but is one OF the most difficult known
to surgeons.
| The fault to be corrected is known as
congenitaI dislocation of the hip joint
Frequently it is a result of accident or
straining at the time of birth of the
child.
Congenial dislocation of the hip Joint
means that the head Of the femur, or
large bone above the knee is not in the
estsbulum, OF socket, into which it natur-
ally fits This fault may occur either
singly or doubly
In the case OF Mr.. Armours little child
both joints were originally dislocated,
hut an operation performed a year Oh
two ago proved successful in the setting
of one of these joints.
| There are two methods pursued today
in correcting congenital dislocatjon. One is
known as the open method, the other
as the closed method. The open method
1 is that in which the knife is used and
1 the head of the thigh bone restored to
/ its natural place in the astabulum, or
socket, out cutting the ligament which
restraints it and forcing it into position
The Lorenz method is one of manipula-
ton No knife is used, the ligament is
not cut, but the same result is gained by
a massage of the muscles and technical
manipulation which tends to cause a re-
Taxation Of the ligament and muscles
and allows the head of the femur to as
sumo its proper place in the socket of
the hip bone.
After the joint has been successfully set
a plaster cast is put on extending around
the abdomen and down the leg to the
knee, holding the leg at right angles to
| the body and on the same plane as the
base of the spine when the child is laid
/ fiat on its back.
This plaster cast is allowed to re-
main untouched. usually. for about three
| months. Then it is removed and the leg
| is pulled down a little toward its natural
POSITION when a new cast Is put on. This
operation, the removing OF the cast and
the gradual forcing of the leg into the
natural position lis continued for a per-
/ led of six to nine months and it is usual
" twelve to eighteen months from the
time of tho original operation in which
the joint is set before the fault is regard
cd as entirely connected and the child
strong enough to run and play as other
children do.
Just why Mr.. Armour went all the
way TO the University of Vienna for a
nan to perform the second operation on
his little daughter is not known for here
/ in New Yory the same operat ton has been
successfully performed many times, and
five cases parallel to that of the Armour
child, are in the Hospital for Crippled
at the present time. and every patient
is well on the way TO complete recov-
cry.
DR.. Royal Whitman. Of New York, per-
formed the operations above mentioned,
and has performed many in the past
with a record of cures Of 40 per cent OF
cases brought to him.
Not every case of congenital dislocation
Is durable however. In many cases the
head of the femur IS SO flattened or other
wise deformed that it will not At into
the socket designed by nature to hold il,
and consequently when set will not retain
its position. Such cases are generally
hopeless.
Little Miss Armour IS not believed to
be in this class. however
The operation Of setting e conEtnitaI
dislocation is not especially painful to
the patient under the new Lorenz method
for the desired effect is brought about
so gradually and by such easy steps that
eXcruoiating pain is avoided.
In the old method. where the knife is
used and the fault is corrected by 4
cutting Of a Hgament and suddenly
applied force IL placing the bone in its
natural position The patient undoubtedly
suffers intense pain.
FORTUNE OUT or NOTHING.