The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-25
A TRIUMPH FOR LORENz.
How He Sayed the Life of a Little
Girl Who Was Dying.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Great as is the fame of Dr. Lorenz.
one act he performed yesterday will
live in the memory of all who saw it
as greater than all else. He brought
back to life a child from whom the
spark was going, a little girl who was
as near to death as human ever gets
and yet RECEIVERS. But for his wonder
full presence of mind the life 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 first
operation in that borough. The subject
was Mary Donnelly- 6 years old. Her
hip had been dfslocared.
Apparently the hospital attendants
who had charge of administering the
anaesthetics to the child blundered.
Maybe they were clustered by the pres
eDce of the great surgeon; maybe they
were excited by reason of the large at
tendance, for the room, which is de-
signed to accommodate only seventy
five persons, was packed and damned
until more than 300 were in it. The
assistants did not succeed in getting
the child fully unconscious before they
brought her into the room. She was
AiOotiiAl6 anu VI JtilS SOlllys InCy POut-
ed chloroform upon the sponge and APP
piled it hastily. Then she became still
and DR.. Lorenz began his. operation.
But as be tore the muscles and freed
the little cripple from the dislocation
she moaned and tossed her head from
side to side and tried to wrest her
self from the bonds w4ich bound her.
"Oh, don't please, please DON'T" she
pleaded.
1t was not for the surgeon to stop
once, the operation had begun, but he
hurried with his work. Once or twice
he looked impatiently at his assistants
and frowned. Then one of them be-
came SO nervous he upset the chlorform
bottle and it went crashing into a hun
dred pieces on the floor. There was
rush for more chloroform, but in
his haste, 1t is said, the doctor got
other instead. t....-
Lecture stops Suddenly.
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 it's
attention to him, Dr. Doig suddenly
clutched him by the arm and pointed
to the child. s"-
In a flash DR.. Lorenz dropped his
manuscript and leaped to the table He
seized the hands of the child, which
were bound together by a stout band
age, and putting forth all his giant
strength, pulled and strained in an eff
fort to break the bandage.
In an instant the room was in. an
uproar. The great majority of the 300
persons present bwere physicians and
they all saw at once what had happen
de. They saw tina 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.
dozen physicians leaped forward
from their seats to the operating table,
wishing to do something, Advice was
shouted from All parts of the room,
and in the tunult the clearest and
coolest man there was DR.. Lorenz. !,
"Forceps! Forceps! Bring. oxygent'
he shouted, selling one of the attend
ants by the shoulders and literally
throwing him through the crowd. His
movements were so rapid that before
the startled attendant was we'll on his
way DIR. 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.
Lire ShNe0.
While he was doing this DR. Mueller
obtained pair of forceps and clasped
the little girls tongue, which he work.
ed backward and forward in rhythm
with the movements OF DR.. Lorenz.
While the attendants and other physi-
clans We're still falling over each other
in their excitement Dr. Lorenz looked
up with smile and paused. The spark
of life had been brought back into the
frail little body before him.
DR.. Lorenz stretched out his big,
powerful arms and took in a long
breath. Then he turned to the startled
crowd. .
II once lost a child on the table" he
said, quietly, but clearly. at was
after most successful operation, a
very beautiful one, in Vienna" AS
suddenly as he had taken on the energy
and dexterity of the emergency he re-
sumed his placid academic manner.
The other physicians looked and saw
that the child breathed again. 1t took
them some time to regain their self
possession, but from the instant when
( he saw that the child's life was saved
DR.. Lorenz went on as if nothing had
happened.