The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-23
VH|RLN|ND TOUR
Ct DR.. LOREkZ
What Great Austrian Surgeon
Has Done in America.
CAMPAIGN OF MERCY
How He Has Refused to Ac-
cept Most Fees.
CAMPAIGN OF MERCY

The whirlwind tour of this country
made by DR.. Dolf Lorenz is character
lstic of the man. He travelled from
the Atlantic TO the Pacific and back again
ana from the Great Lakes in the north
10 the Gulf in the south. And in every
city he stopped AT he left living monu-
n.ents OF his wonderful skill, his magnifi-
cent charity.
Scores upon scores of children who
we're regarded as hopeless life cripples
are now sound in life and body. Little
ones who never took a step without a
crutch or other aid will soon be able to
romp and play with all the agility OF
other children. Homes that were sad
dened by the presence of crippled little
ones have been made happy. Parents,
whose homes were torn by the seeming
ipcurable Affections of their children have
lived in i paradise since the deft hand
OF Lorenz blotted out deformity almost
in a moment.
More important than all this is that
phys icians ard surgeons in many parts
OF the United States now know how to
ycrform the bloodless operation which
Will make the name of Lorenz endure
for all time. When the great Austrian
goes TO his home from this country he
will leave behind him hundreds of sur
eeons capable of doing what he has
done.
= less genera man would have kept
secret his art. LOrenZ worked E.Sht and
day to make others as capable as he is
to perform the operation. His one de-
sire was to instruct the largest number
@ physicians he could possibly reach in
each city he visited. Had he regarded
his own skill and his own discoveries
solely from the viewpoint of the money
making business man the secret he pos
sessed could nave been used so that If
would produce millions.
But DR.. Lorenz literally turned aside
opportunities freely offered him here by
which he could have heaped up many
fortunes, to labor for nothing.
Unheralded DIR. Lorenz came to this
country last October and went direct
TO Chicago. he reached there Oct 10,
Two days later he operated upon Lolita
Armour. making the crippled child of
the great millionaire we'll and strong.
He was brought to this country by the
Armours especially for that operation.
and they paid him a large fec. That
fee WIS one OF the few he has accepted
I'm this country, and he took the money
because the pSrents were well able 10
pay, and because the large sum enabled
him tc travel about and work for moth
ing IN all sections OF the country.
Twenty -four hours after the operation
on ] olita Armour. the man who had
come SO quietly into the country that
not even his arrival on the steamship
was noted in the newspapers was fam
Gus in every city town, village. hamlet
IN the land. II had been his intention to
go back to Austria as quietly as he had
come.
But an irresistible appeal from Sur
Eeens, physicians. humanitarians. the
parents Of crippled children. came from
every city. The staffs Of hundreds of
hospitals begged him To visit and in
struct them. Then il was that DIR. I.or-
enz decided upon campaign of mercy
thet has no parallel in the medical his
tory of the country. The decision was
reached in moment and carried into
almost instant effect
The day after the operation on Lolita
Armour he held clinic at Chicago
hes itsl. attended by great number of
surge ons and physicians. and operated
upon MIR eases. Two days later he op-
Grated upon two difficult cases at the
Mercy Hospital and on I'VE cases the
following day at the same hospital on
Get. i twenty cases were treated at the
Coanty Hospital
No data are obtainable on the number
Of cases offered in Chicago, though it
runs into The hundreds. So far as known
all eases treated in that city have been
successful. but until the casts are re-
moved results viii not hc known
From his hard labors in Chicago Dr.
Lorenz started on his trip TO the Pa
rife coast He made a two-day stop in
Denver. Col On Oct. p he operated
uron four children i'm st. Luke's Hos
pital of that city. three Of the opera
tors proving successful. The next day.
Oct. y. he operated upon two children
~ the Court Hospital. both cases prov
ing successful.
From Denver Dr. Lorenz went to Pu-
clio. Col. where he operated upon two
rases. both proving successful. The be-
rcGcent results OF his teachings were
promptly shown in that city Nov 5
b.. r. w Corwin local physician. per
formed successfully the Lorenz operation
uron a child suffering with congenital
Gislocation OF the hip.
From Pueblo DR.. I.orenz went direct
&c San Francisco. lie reached there
Nov. >. and remained six days. operat-
irs. curing and teaching Free clinics
we're held daily. and in all twenty-five
little ones were operated upon. TIE de-
formed limbs being Strengthened and put
into plaster casts. Not all OF the cases
IN san Francisco were coagenitaI dislo-
cation Of the hip. In that city he dis
riayed for the first time in this coun-
try The wonders Ct bIoo6Iess surgery
when applied TO the st-aightening OF
Rub feet
Los Angeles. Cal. was the next city
visited He reached there Nov. Il and
remained five days
In that time he operated on eight cases
two OF them being double dislocations
Of the hip. The patients ranged from
three 10 eight Years. ali bat one being
girls. one OF the latter was colored ard
vas the first negro child treated by the
great surgeon.
All the little patients now have the
use OF their limbs and though SIN in
faster and bandases are reported 70
be on the sure road To recovery. Three
OF the operations We're performed at a