New-York tribune., 1902-12-20
CURED BY LORENZ PLAN.
Child Operated on by DR.. G'bney
.Sho7cn at Clinic,

r,a,,her O 1901 and who is now cured. Dr.
Virgil P Gibrey performed the operation. 1t
happened while Dr. Lorenz was holding the
clinic at the College of Physicians and Sur
reons Sixtieth-st. and Amsterdam-ave- A
woman. leading d little girl, plump and rosy
checked. and apparently in perfect physical
condition was escorted into the pit Of the am
r,bitheatre The child Julia Sweeney, OF
No 393 Tenth-ave- Professor Lorenz at once
went up 10 the child and said:
1T is always my greatest pleasure to see a
child that has been cured by my method
introduce this lady 10 you
The child was divested of her frock and por-
tions of her clothes. and the thgh-the left
one-where a congenital disloc&tion had been,
was then shown.
Turning to DR. Gibney Professor Lorenz said:
Tt makes you happy, but it makes me
more so"
There was long and loud applause for Pro
fessor Lorenz and DR.. Gibney. Professor Lorenz
remarked that the legs We're of the same
length. as he showed, and he could tell the dis
location had been the left side, il was
slightly weaker. He also found that the head of
7he femur was slightly twisted, and perhaps the
anatomical result was not perfect. but he added:
We needn't care about that long as the
child can walk
Or. Lorenz called the child to come to him on
the other side of the amphitheatre, but she
would not go 10 hIm- he leo her across. ana
then she ran as well as any other little girl. TO
her mothers arms
The Vienna surgeon started his days work
early At 10 a. m. at Bellevue Medical College
he began TO operate. There he established a rec
ord for quick operating by reducing double
hip dislocation in minute and twenty sec
onds.
The clinic took place in the large operating
room of the Bellevue Medical College. at Twen-
H., x3,o,5
persons were present. and they included many
of New-York's prominent surgeons. the staff Of
Bellevue Hospital and many of the students.
Or Lorenz and his assistant. DR.. Mueller, were
accompanied into the operating room by DR..
Reginald H Sayre and DR.. Sayre's assistant,
Dr. Norey- DR. Sayre in a few remarks intro
duced DR.. Lorenz. who at once started TO read
from manuscript a description Of congenital dis
location
The first patient To be treated had been rolled
into the room by this time. and Dr. Lorenz be-
gan his work The patient was Jennie Zacur,
seven years old. of No. 72 Clinton-st. whose
ailment congenital dislocation Of the left
hip. The child moaned some. but soon after
entering the room was sufficiently chloroformed
10 permit the operation to go on. While prep
arations for the operation were being made |
many of the laymen IN the room went out.
DR.. Lorenz and his assistant began their work |
l,v living a couple of sheets to the table and |
then started TO draw the leg back to its place |
While doing this the operating table moved and |
several physicians held it DR.. Sayre, who was |
near by. became so interested in the work that |
he got down his knees TO watch it
she is seven years old remarked DR.. Lorenz |
as he worked tand consequently more difficult. |
But We shall succeed
Seven minutes after the child had been |
brought into the room audible click was |
4f,aS known
fen1ur had slipped into place and there was con-
sidera BILE applause The work of placing the
plaster cast on the hip then taken up, dur
ing which DR.. Lorenz read from manuscript |
When he came to the passage. The fexing of |
The knee should take place. he exclaimed, 'Oh,
forgot TO do that" The surgeon dropped his /
manuscript and proceeded to that portion Of |
the work.
While the plaster being put the child |
became conscious. One of the physicians /
turned around to pick up the chloroform, but It |
had been moved 1t was found a moment later |
however. the child again put to sleep and |
the work completed. DR.. Lorenz advised that |
the cast should be kept eight months; that |
the child should not be permitted to crutches
and predicted that she would be able TO hobble |
about in three four days The patient was |
then taken TO Bellevue Hospital and placed in |
Ward No. 1.
The second patient on which the record time |
was made was Annie Pope, three years old, |
whose parents live at No. S39 East Ninety |
second-st The child suffered from double |
congenital dislocation Of the hips Her COM |
plexion was yellow. Dr. Lorenz noticed this as
soon as he saw the patient. and inquired as to |
its cause.
"Jaundice" replied one of the physicians
In one and a quarter minutes after beginning |
the work DR.. Lorenz and his assistant had re- |
duced the dislocation Of the right leg, and ten |
seconds later mad completed the work Of re- |
ducng the dislocation of the left leg. Loud ap- |
plause greeted the result of the operation.
The limbs were then placed at right angles TO |
the body, and the work of incasing them in the |
plaster began. DR.. Lorenz said the cast should |
remain on one and possibly two years; but. |
he said. she can have it taken off before she |
gets married. There was considerable laugh |
ter at the remark
DR.. Lorenz said that he had performed 260 |
similar operations by cutting, but had aban- |
doned that system three years ago Since that |
time he had performed more than one thousand |
operations by his present method He dem |
onstrated to the audience that the Pope child |
would be able to sit down by placing her on a |
stool
DR. Lorenz was warmly congratulated by the |
physicians at the close of his work, and then |
left the building to take luncheon with the |
New-York correspondent of Vienna news
paper.
Following the operations at the Bellevue |
Medical College. DR. Lorenz, accompanied by |
DR. Gibney, drove TO the Vanderbilt Clinic, con- /
nected with the College of Physicians and Sur |
geons. at Sixtieth-st. and Amsterdam-ave- There |
two cases were ready for his manipulation
The large amphitheatre at this place was |
crowded there being many standing, and some |
could not even gain admittance TO the room. |
DIR. Lorenz was assisted by DR.. Whiting, of /
the clinic staff. The first case called was that |