Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-12-16
LOVES LITTLE FOLKS.
DR.. Lorenz Tells Of His Work
For Crippled Children.
STUDIED how NOT TO SHED BLOOD

the knife-IAparts Secret of Hts
Methods 20 the Profession Because
Of Desire to Relieve Suffering.
"sweetest ThinE In Life" He Says.
"Es to BE Able to Give"
"A physician dare not keep secret
anything which can relieve humanity
from suffering" said DR.. Adolf LOrenz.
the great German surgeon, to James
Creelman, the Washington correspond
ent Of the New York World, In answer
to the suggestion that physicians might
keep secret their methods and discover
les TN order to enrich themselves. "No
physician dare do that All, no! We
must give and give and give. 1t IL one
Of the sweetest things in life to be able
to give. All physicians do it. Their
discoveries are given to the world at
once and without price. That Is the
rule of my profession in all countries.
There are 30 few hours in the day
to work and there Is 30 much work to
be done, 90 many deformed children to
be saved" he said. "And it is such Il
pleasure to remember the little ones and
the grateful mothers l have left be-
hind me everywhere in this country
yes, even in Cripple Greek. in the Rocky
mountains.
II want to do everything I can while
I am In America to prevent suffering
and to give my method to American
surgeons. 1t is not new thing, for l
wrote a book about it, but this method
cannot be explained. 1t must be dem.
onstrated in practice. In Vienna have
received many American surgeons in
my clinic, but all cannot come to vi.
emma, and now that am in America
am doing everything In my power to
demonstrate for the benefit Of the sur
geons here.
II would never have been called to
Chicago for a surgical operation with
the knife. Technical surgery has reach.
ed very high plane In America.
I'm bloody surgery the surgeons Of
America equal the most skillful sur
geons of Europe. That is an accepted
fact
II was called to Chicago to use
bloodless surgery In case where
bloody surgery had failed, and l was
successful.
"The truth is that in attempting to
cure congenital dislOcadon Of the hip
by manipulation and without making
an opening in the flesh your surgeons
have not dared to use the limb Of a
child az l have used 1t. did not dare
to do It myself until had made many
experiments.
when there is no hip joint, II the
bones are forced into position. nature
will furnish the socket. but nature
will not grow the joint unless she Is
forced. When the bones are manipu-
lated into position, the child must be
made to walk. When the weight OF the
body is thrown upon the imperfect
part, nature will grow whatever is nee
essary.
mo one can say what are tue limits
of orth0pedic surgery. There Is no
doubt that it will rid the human race
of many of it's most terrible def0rmi,
ties. The bloody operations hithert"
used in cases of congenital hip dislOca'
tons are very dangerous. They fire.
quently leave the child worse than 1t
was before the knife was applied, but |
can say of the bloodless method that ii
not only does not endanger life, but
there is always some Improvement
! shown, even If the cure be not COM
'iplete.
"For years used the knife in Oper-
ating on such cases. In 500 cases !
lost the lives Of four children. That
was not much--4 out of 5OO-but 1t
was too much to bear studied how
to avoid shedding the blood Of chill
dren. Every time l made all opening
in the flesh of a little patient studied
the parts with the idea of giving relief
without cutting. Then experimental
on a hundred cases with my present
method l said to the parents 7 ask
for no pay II fail. 1t is an expert
ment. If fail. you need not pay; II
succeed, you will know what to do
give years ago ! made my decisive
public demonstration. had been
laughed at by surgeons everywhere.
! No matter what my success might be,
my work was treated with scorn and
rldicule. How well l remember the
day Of that conclusive demonstration
There were fully 500 surgeons pres
ent-among them the ablest surgeons
in Europe-ready to crush me If
failed. But did not fail, and those
who laughed and jeered at me began
to initiate my method. which is now
accepted throughout the world.
81 had to discover the age limit for
these bloodless operations and, having
discovered that. l had to know how
far a child's limb could be manipulated
and under what conditions nature
would throw out her modifying proc
esses.
'sThese terrible hip diseases which
horrify the world can be cured IN
childhood OF course. as I said before