New-York tribune., 1902-12-18
OPER4TES ON CLUBFOOT
DR.. Lorens Holds a Long Clinic at
Post Graduate Hospital.

uate Hospital Second-ave. and Twentieth-st
The first was the fact that it was the longest
clinic he has held since he has been here; the
second, he operated for the first time in this
city on club foot. and the third, the largest
crowd of spectators yet admitted to see his
work. was present.
DR.. Lorenz and his assistant, DR.. Muller, De-
gan the day. after breakfast. at the Holland
House, with visit to the New-York Hospital
in West Fifteenth-st. There was no case of dis
located hip in this hospital and Dr. Lorenz was
simply taken on tour of inspection through
the institution by DR.. X, A. Downer and Super
ntendent George F. Ludlam. Dr. Lorenz was
then driven to the home of DR.. and Mrs. Fran
els P Kinnieutt in East Thirty -ffth-st., where
he had luncheon.
Thence he went to ST. Marks Hospital as the
guest of DR.. Carl Beck. a large number of
prominent German physicians greeted him
there He had not intended to perform an
operation at this institution, but was prevailed
on to do so by DIR. Beck. The patient operated
on was Ethel Cohen, two and half years old.
who suffering from a congenital dislocation
of the left hip. The operation lasted only few
minutes.
AT THE T-GRADUATE HOSPITAL,
Dr. Lorenz and DR.. Muller were driven to the
Post Graduate Medical Scchool and Hospital.
There three patients were operated for
club foot.
1t was not until $3.50 that DR.. Lorenz ap-
peared ready 70 operate, but the amphitheatre
was filled over an hour before. Fully $50 per-
sons saw his work. A score of them were
women. So great was the crush that many per-
sons went to the roof. and peered through the
narrow skylight and ventilators for a view OF
the operations, the amphitheatre being on the
top floor 1t piercing cold UP there. but
ia
watched the doctors movements for over two
hours. At $50 DR.. B. ST. John Roosa, presi-
dent of the POSTGRADUATE faculty introduced
DR.. Lorenz The famous "bloodless' surgeon
made a few remarks. and the first patient was
brought in. According to his custom. DR..
Lorenz lectured while he worked, and he was
frequently applauded,
Lena Purcell, three years old, was the first
to be operated on, and the dislocation was soon
In place.
BOTH HIPS DISLOCATED.
The next case was that OF Lillian Carmody.
nine years old, who had suffered from a dis
location of both hip joints. This operation took
about twenty-five minutes. Her left hip had
been successfully operated on by the Lorenz
method a few weeks ago by DR.. A. NJ. Phelps, of
the Post t-Graduate Hospital.
Florence Walfau five years old, with a single
dislocation was then brought in. This opera
ton was also long, Dr. Lorenz explaining every
detail
Then the Vienna surgeon lectured on clubfoot
and said he would perform operation for that
defect. In the OF his remarks he said the
United States was a leader In orthopedic sur
gerry. This operation for clubfoot can be per-
formed on adults. well children" he con-
tlnued. which is not possible for congenital dis
location of the hip with any degree of success.
1 once operated on a man in Germany forty
years old. also one twenty-three years old.
Both recovered the of their feet. One was
operated on with knife. and the other without.
The only cutting I ever tolerated for this af-
Fiction was that which affected the soft parts OF
the member"
Hattie Brill. four years old. the patient
selected for the operation. the right foot being
affected. Dr. Lorenz kneaded and twisted the
crippled foot until 1t was as soft ana pliable as
a piece of putty. Then he deftly moulded II into
It's proper form. and announced that the opera
ton completed. plaster cast was ntted
on the foot by DR.. Muller and Or. Lorenz. DR..
Lorenz said that the child should be allowed to
use her foot much as she could after four or
FIVE days and that 1t would be necessary to
keep the cast for six or seven months. after
which she could walk.
The four operat tions at the Post-Graduate
Hospital occupied more than two hours. and
at their close DR.. Lorenz showed that he was
tired man.
After the clubfoot had been reduced TO its
proper position bandages were put on from the
toes up 10 the knee triangular ho!e was
tuen cut over the dorsum of the foot. to allow
free movement and the bandage was cut away
from over the toes to allow a free circulation.
DR. Lorenz insisted these two points.
At $40 the clinic was over, and the tireu
nj rses aud assistants were free. DR.. Muller
assisted Or. Lorenz throughout the operations,
while DR. Jason Samuel Parker. OF the hos
pitaI staff administered the ether.
DR. Lorenz and DR.. Muller dined last night
with Dr. Reginald Sayre, professor of ortho-
pedic surgery in the Bellevue Medical College
Cornell University Medical College, at First.
ave and Twenty -eighth-st, will be the scene of
another public clinic to-day, to be presided over
hv DIR I,orenz DR.. Newton NJ. Shaffer, who has
arranged the details for this clinic, has not only
number of congenital hip dislocation cases for
DR. Lorenz, but also a case OF Wry neck ana one
OF cubfoot.
DR. Iorenz will deliver an address In the
evening at the annual meeting of Auxiliary No.
. of the Guild for Crippled Children. at Tuxedo