The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-28
THE CRIPPLE'S FRIEND
Methods Of Professor Lorenz
Described by a Pupil.
MOST ATTENTIVE TO THE POOR.

DR.. Max SchapirO. Who Studied I'm
der the vienresc Surgeon, says He
will Not Allow the Needy to Be
slighted-How thu Work Is Done
at His Own Clinic.
DR.. Max Schapiro of Baltimore will
entertain Professor Lorenz, the famous
orthopedic surgeon, when he visits that
city, says the Philadelphia Press. DR..
Schapiro studied at Vienna under DR..
Lorenz, being with him for more than
two years. He gives the following &C
count of the method he uses at his
clinic:
"Since 1896 DR.. Lorenz has used the
knife only in exceptional cases. He
never employed it, however, to the ex-
tent that other %orthapedic surgeons do.
Fifteen years ago he had a clinic with
Professor Albert, 4 Vienna surgeon,
but more recently he has established a
clinic of his own. Here he and lis as
sistants treat a great number of pa
tents. They come to him from all parts
Of the world. some with means and
some without. but they all receive the
same attention. None of his assistants
touches a deformed person without
first consulting him.
AT his clinic in Vienna the hours be-
tween 10 and II o'clock in the morning
are for poor people, and often the mum.
Der waiting amounts to 100 or more.
DR.. Lorenz is very particular about the
poor and will not permit them to be
sighted.
$50 much has appeared in the news
papers about his treatment of hip dis
locations that the impression exists
that this is the only deformity treated
by him. This is not the case Every
branch Of orthopedic surgery receives
the same attention. Strengthening out
bowed legs and adjusting club feet are
operations more common with him than
reductions of hip dislocations.
His Of treating deformities
depends upon the nature of the malady
and the age Of the afflicted person. In
cases of children less than twelve or
fourteen years old working with the
hands is almost the exclusive remedy.
He examines the limb carefully to see
il the bone has lost it's lexibility, and
II it has not the deformity presents
few difficulties, although an immense
amount of hard work is necessary. II
the patient is older, machinery is very
often employed, and DR.. Lorenz's elm
ic is filed with some very original
contri7 ances, each designed for a par
ticular purpose.
I'm cases of club feet the tendons are
kneaded, the surgeon and his assist
ants using all their strength to loosen
up the drawn tendons. After the work
has been thoroughly done, sometimes
overdone, for it is necessary to get the
tendons in such a condition that the
foot can be readily bent. a cast is used,
and at the end of a few weeks, when
it is removed, the foot is perfectly
straight.
colder persons find the operation Sc
we're. Their bones are of curse firm,
and manipulations have no effect. Ma.
chinery is then used, after the patient
has been chloroformed. When legs are
badly bowed, it is sometimes necessary
to crack the bone before the limb can
be Strengthened. In hip dislocations an
operation is necessary when the de-
formed person has reached forty years.
when the deformity is very serious,
the plaster cast is worn for six months.
At the end Of that time the %dislocated
bone is firmly bound by the tendons
which normally keep d limb in its prop
er position"
DR.. Schap1ro said that no time has
been fixed for DIR. LOrenz's visit to
Baltimore.