Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-30
BELIEVES IN ALTERNATING THE
sUFFERINGs OF MANKIND.
NOBLE WORK PERFORMED
Gets Princely Fee Tor Operating on
Armour Child but Gives of His
Skill Freely in Aid of Chicago
cripples-Spent Nearly Week of
His Valuable Time.

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Chicago from Austria for a fee great
er than any surgeon ever before re-
ceived, and, after dealing successfully
with a most difficult case, spent the
greater part of week attending de-
| formed children whose parents are
penniless?
| Prof. Lorenz is a giant TeutoR, with
a beard and an exterior resembling
the impossible King Leopold of Bel
GUM This beard has a most familiar
appearance. When first you look at
it you are reminded of King Leopold;
then you think of Tolstoi and the
i painter Verestchagin.
| If you had visited the Auditorium
Annex almost any day last week you
would have found him the central fig
ure in truly pathetic scene. Dozens
of mothers with crippled children sur
rounded his suite, tearfully beseech-
ing him to do something for their lit
tie ones. There were children with
shrunken limbs, with twisted feet and
distorted knee joints. And they were
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man who had cared for millionaire's
daughter to try to cure their deformi-
| ties.
| In one of his rooms sat the big
kind-hea>ted Austrian going over a
mass of correspondence. Most of the
letters were from persons in other
parts of America, offering him fabu-
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day of his time.
| what do | care for their money!"
said the surgeon rather impatiently.
81 should like to accommodate them,
but truly, l am homesick; want to
get back to dear Vienna"
Then, turning to one of his secretai
ries, he said
' "Tell those waiting outside to at
| tend one of the clinics which l am
holding at the hospitals, and then |
will try TO do something for the tots. :
While making his comment he kept
sorting his letters. His large head
swayed backward and forward con-
stantly like pendulum. This motion
caused the ends OF his beard to per-
| form antics on the buttons of his
sack coat.
"You want to know something
about my early life?" he repeated in
response to a question. well. in the
first place, was not born in Vienna.
| was born on a farm in northern Aus
tria. My father was not particularly
wealthy, and when l was a lad l had
to work hard, very hard
Il did not go to Vienna until began
the study of medicine. When | en-
tered the university there l soon be-
came interested in orthopedic surgery,
and | have since made this study the
aim of my life. | was a poor student
at least so far as money goes, and
had no easy time of it.
Some fifteen years ago, when it
was generally considered among sur
geons that nothing could be done to
effect a cure of congenital hip disloca-
ton, Buckminster Brown, surgeon
living in Boston, conceived the idea
of holding a patient in extension, and
by traction to stretch the tissues suf-
ficiently to bring the head of the fe-
muir opposite the socket. This treat
ment met with little appreciation in
America, but was accepted in England
and is used there today in the treat
ment of many cases.
This was, however, a treatment al
most as bad as the disease, and it was
questionable whether or not any good
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last it was found that the patients
were not cured. But the effect of this
theory upon the profession was to
stimulate interest and research, and
in Germany. Italy, Austria, and the
United States some slight advance
ment was made.
Mine years ago Plea, the famous
italian surgeon, and myself conceived
the same idea Of operation without the
knife-by manipulation. | operated
upon a child and was successful. He
operated upon an adult ard failed.
The surgeons both o. Europe and
America were for several years quite
loath to accept this form CT treatment
II was a manner of manipulation and
seemingly apart from regular surgical
procedure, and many verbal battles
were fought as TO whether or not
had made an actual reduction of the
dislocation. There is no longer any
dispute about it. That did make, and
have since made. such actual reduc-
tions has been proved, not alone by
anatomical dissection which is unan'
swerable. but by the X-ray, the func-
tional result and the unmistakable
phenomena at the time of the opera
ton. prove that actual reductions are
made.
The success of the treatment de
ponds upon a minute attention to de
tails after the first actual reduction
J, of the dislocation is made. These de
ails refer to the position of the limb
the stretching of the contracting and
re-dislocating muscles and the enlarg-
ing of the anterior portion of the cap
lsule of the socket. and by manipula-