The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-30
DOCTOR LORENZ, The MAN.
NE rs 4 SIN-FO0T, ROAD-SI'Ot L.
DERED TEL roy.
Or. George n. IIioit Tells How TIE Doctor
Live. and works al Ills Vienna iOm,N
~ GOOti.Si/ed Cheek 10 Aid triDpirs
on Whom Iic WIN Not Operate.

Prof. Adolf I.oronz Of Vienna, who comes
20 New York this week has been wiGcy
heralred a. the performer Of his opera
ton for the r. 'uctipn Of congcni'al Dido
cation Of the hip Joint. but little has been
said Of The professor as an intivi .ual' or
of his al coverv or invention of the opera
tion now 40 famous
DR.. Lorenz has for years been we'll known
IN Europe. but outside of the ranks of the
orthope To- surgeons he has not bcen wi ely
known In the United States, He was asso-
ciatei years ago with the famous surgeon
OF Vienna Billroth, and later in that city
with Albert, also a man of high rcpute
over thern, bt, not often heard Of h"'".
In appearance DR. Lorcnz is stalwar
Teuton of middle life lie !. G feet tall.
broad -shoud.l ed aud unusually strong
physically. 1hc distinction q his APP
pearance Is emphasized ty his very long
blond beard, which comes half way down
to his waist. This badge OF manhood he
tucks afectionately away beneath his
operating gown when he begins an opera
ton He is about SO years old
DR.. George X. Elliott of this city, to whom
Prof Lorenz himself in his book Oh his
operation gives the credit of b"iag tie
first TO perform the Lorena operation IN
this country. was asked yesterday about
his first meeting with the professor, and
he said that he found him completely
wrapped up in his work, aud one OF the
most enthusiastic men in his devotion To
his discovery that DR. Elliott had ever met
He il one of the most careful men III
demonstrating his operation, too, that |
have ever found" said DIR. Elliott He
takes the greatest pains 10 have II clearly
underst ood To teach one exactly what II IL
and how TO do it, 80 that his contribution
TO the worlds knowledge may 90 Of the
greatest benefit to the widest circ.es.
when | met him in Vienna in 1895, he
had Jus, operated on patients from Russia,
Holland and Italy lie told mo that he had
operated on persons from every country
of Europe, but never on an American, and
he was very DESTROYS, he said, of an OPP
portunity 10 perform an operation on
resident Of the United states.
He had previous to that time performed
many cutting Optrat ioi.- for tins ZANE
deformily, aid tor that Was known here
at well IA, abroad, but up 10 that time, the
fall of 1895, although there had been some
discussion II. Eu op,. of his b!oodles- opera
ton v liCh h" hud then been PERFORMING
for a fw Moths, little had been heard
of it in his country.
Il was speaking to him Of his cutting
operation, aud ne SAID ! VIII sho" you
something that they do not yet know al out
in America And he then explained his
bloodless Cp'fatlon to me. he was az thit
time ol'ratlng III Il private Hospital III
Vienna, and hvlng III suburb ol the city
about fifteen miles away,
ii" came IN ana Logan ms "oih az the
operating table az = o CLOCK every morning.
a I'd he was most decidedly prompt, one
m, wing remember reached the hospital
Shst at O'Clock, ana ne met me WIN the
rema yk: IL al doie' DOCTOR. ne had
alreaL v completed one operation that morn
ing. n tter finishing with all the operations
for the HV ne WOMB treii nave oliivr i'ouIs
from per taps 10 O'Clock TIL l., and then go
home aga. y
He was nara worker, Par'Cuariy
ent husiastic, ana very .horoush ne hao
a gymnasium az ms once ara 10 'his he
made his patti. N's "ho were 10 nave gym
mast ic exercises ~ par oil 'itlr 'iealiitht
come. Girls VIII, I'll, ne vas u'a,H,s LOT
lateral curvature. ioi ,'H'ai;.c' nn No'''u
have come There G'siy 81 ~ s.oup, 10
that they could TAX, ih'if tAtiCiets ui'der
his supervision. He hau io''.u, ne eiu,
that MOI unless the 'a,lehtS were uhder
his eye could bc be SURE 'la' 'iey Mo,.iu lot
protracted periods do v. we .'ai'c' ol
exercise what they We're told' 90 he had
the gymnasium put up at VIZ ONCE.
After the operations Tor DD.ES'r al uls-
location of the hip JOINT, vIn. Lor,im
would dismiss his patients, Wearing uhelr
splints or plaster casts. and ha Sc them r'-
turn TO him In about three mon MS AFTER
that period il might Ice found nav they
could 20 without the splints r th.N new
setting Of these might he nccess' w Tor
further wear. just 20 now. he il TO nave
the Armour child according TO the pub
lished announcement taken over 10 see
him in the spring"
When the con ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS thig'
hone leans into position IN the socket Of
the hin Joint. under the Iorenz operation,
ia click agains, the socket, or acct abulum
AZ il il called, NAV be plainly heard and
the movement can, Of course, be plainly
felt nv the operator
In n paper in the Medical Record Or
Elliott saws of this n connect ion with pr.
Lorcnzs enthusiastic nature:
-Uear VIVA, the enthusiasm Of Iorenz
leads him 10 exCloum at this luncture:
This eyent. ALWAYS expected with great
tension of mini and deep longing, il ac-
<on,ni;sb.d like the triumphal entrance of
a princeiy lord through the doors of his
heradi,arv residence from which he has
bean excluded for a long time, through
stress of circumstances, amid the Oh ming
~ III tho beating Of drums. and firing OF
cannon which shakcs the foundation of his
oaatio Ard vet this plain,ive music of
nature Ia for the marched ears of the opera
80 a so,,nd into ing song of the spheres:
as lone at least as no preserves during his
iohoriS,s work a rec,n,iyc soul for such
en;ovuent
From this enthusiasm, almost Italian
IN lis intensity. the descent l. marked to
the sober description given nv DR.. Elliott