Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-12-23
TRlUMPAS OF L0RENz,
Saves Patients Life by Sheer Pres
ence Of Mind.
CURES DOUBLE CLUB FOOT.
6lunder By the Attendants In q
DrOOklyn Hospital Narrowly
Escapes Causing Death Of
LATHE sufferer.

New York, Dec. 22.-AlthOugh great
the fame Of DR.. Lorenz, the Austrian
apostle Of "bloodless surgery" who for
several weeks past has been displaying
his wonderful skill in this country, two
acts he has just performed In this city
will live In medical records az being
among bis most notable works.
First he brought back to life child
from whom the spark was going lit
lie girl who was as near to death as
human ever gets and yet RECEIVERS. But
tor his wonderful presence Of mind the
nfe would have been sacrificed In the
presence of the hundreds who gathered
IN the operating room Of the Kings
County hospital in Brooklyn to see his
drst operation in that borough. The
subject was Mary Donnelly, six years
DID. Her hip had been dislocated. His
second triumph occurred when he sue
cessfully operated on a case Of double
club foot" unrolling the distorted ex-
tremities into their proper shape and
position. His patient in the latter case
was seven-mOnths-Old girl
The Attendants BlunAered.
In operating on the little Donnelly
girl apparently the hospital attendants
who had charge of administering the
ln@sthetics to the child blundered.
The assistants did not succeed In get
ting the child fully unconscious before
they brought her into the room. Az
Or. Lorenz tore the muscles and freed
the little cripple from the dislocaton
she moaned and tossed her head from
Side to side.
"Oh, don't! Please, please don't"
uhe pleaded.
It was not for the surgeon to stop
once the operation had begun, but he
hurried with his work. Once or twice
be looked impatiently at his assistants
and frowned. Then one Of them be-
came 80 nervous he upset the chlOro-
form bottle, and 1t went crashing into
4 hundred pieces on the floor.
Lecture stops suadenly.
DR.. Lorenz finished his operation and
turned, manuscript in hand, to explain
In technical terms the operation he had
performed. While he was talking and
the audience was giving all Its atten-
ton to him DR.. Doig suddenly clutched
him by the arm and pointed to the
child.
In a fash DIR. Lorenz dropped his
manuscript and leaped to the table.
He seized the hands Of the child,
which were bound together by stout
bandage, and, putting forth all bis
giant strength, pulled and strained in
an effort to break the bandage.
The doctors present saw the child
had received so much Of the anasthetic
that she was dying. Unless respiration
could be restored at once the child
would be dead beyond recall.
"Forceps! Forceps! Bring oxygen"
DR.. Lorenz shouted, Selling one Of the
attendants by the shoulders and liter
ally throwing him through the crowd.
His movements were SO rapid that be-
fore the startled attendant was well on
his way DR.. Lorenz was back to the
child again.
Putting forth his great strength
again, he snapped the bandage about
the child's wrists and, leaning over
her, pumped the arms up and down.
Child's Life Saved.
While he was doing this DR.. Mueller
obtained a pair of forceps and clasped
the little girls tongue, which he worked
backward and forward in rhythm with
the movements of DR.. Lorenz. While
the attendants and other physicians
were still falling over each other in
their excitement DR.. Lorenz looked up,
with a smile, and paused. The spark
Of life had been brought back into the
frail little body before him.
In the double club foot operation DR..
Lerenz explained a club foot was foot
which had grown spirally. The bones,
ligaments and muscles were all there,
but had grown in contorted or twisted
shape which he called the spiral. His
treatment was unrolling the spiral,
putting the bones Of the foot In their
proper relative positions, fixing them
there by the plaster cast and trusting
nature to do the rest.