The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-21
LORENZ PATIENT NEAR DEATH
HIS QUICkNESS SAVES A CHILD
FROM STANDARDIZATION.
ChlOrofOrm Improperly Administered
-well.Known women See the Doct or
Operate at the Orthopsedic Hospital
Guest OF German Medical Society.

Ut LOTenz nau 10 90 rev stunts In
the way of covering magnificent distances
yesterday. aside from his very active work
at operations. He was taken in charge at
| $50 o'clock In the morning and whirled
away to the Kings County Hospital in the
| Flatbush sect ion of Brooklyn. by DR.. Char, q
Dwight Napier, orthoI . st at that hospital.
where he performed Two operations. He
was then whisked from Flatbush up to
Morningside Heights in Manhattan. to
lunch at and inspect st. Luke's Hospital.
When luncheon was over he came down
to the OrthoI o lie H pspital in Fifty-ninth
street. where he operated on one patient
and then addressed the annual meeting
Of the hospital, afterward holding an i'm
promptu reception there. Then Dr. Karl
| Beck Of st. Marks Hospital took him home
TO dinner and in the evening escorted him
10 meeting of the German Medical Society
and to the Liederkranz.
Besides all this the doctor had to stop in
the middle OF an operation at the King
County Hospital to save the life of the
patient, to whom the anest hetic had been
improperly administered. The operating
surgeon himself had no direct concern
with the administration of the anRst hetic,
but 1t was DR.. Lorenz himself who first
erceived that his subject was in danger
, Of strangulation. and he took immediate
and vigorous steps to restore her.
Thepatient was Mary Donnelly, 8years old ,
q sufferer from congenital dislocation of the
, right hip joint. In the theatre which has
! seats Tor eighty more than double that num-
Der crowded With no p liininary speech,
| DR.. Lorenz set to work on his operation.
, The case was an easy one, the reduction
| being effected in less than three minutes.
mere Ma o.. II. vi II ~, aIsss-
! thesia work, The patient was a. frs,
| imperfectly anasthetized, and cried a
| little. Then the bot lie of choroform fel
! to the floor and smas he'd, and the opera i've
work was suspended while the doctor in
| charge of the antnsthetic FASTENED to pro-
| cure another bottle.
When it was brought there was further
unfortunate work In its administration,
| and suddenly DR.. Lorenz dropped th
! cree open her mouth. She had stopped
| hreat hing, and he alert eve Of the opera. lag
surgeon was the first to detect her plight.
| He shout cd Tor iorceps ara Immediately
| there was great confusion In the room
| The child's hands were tied down by stout
bandages. These DR.. LorenZ tore apart
and promptly yet to work to i,.duce arti-
fetal respiration. In the meantime wind
| dows had been thrown open and tank Of
| oxygen had b en- sent for, The child was
over the forceps The childs teeth were
| pried a. art, her tongue, which had fallen
back into her throat, was pulled out, and
| then oxygen was administered. The
RESPIRATORY measures were successful, the
child was anaesthetized again, and the
! operation was carried to q successful con-
1 clusioh,
In still another respect Dr.. LorenE's
| day yesterday Uttered from any OF its prede-
c.ssors For at the Orthoi q lie H jspita
M - In thu ~ op'
! patrons Of the hospital whereas hereto
| fore the only women who have seen his
oper ations have besn doctors and nurses
The New York Ortho, - lie Hospital
was founded by Presiden, Roosevelt
father its treasurer is the Presidents cousin
and among it's patrons are some Of the best
known New York men and women. Of its
staf have been some Of the best-knovn
New York physicians. Yesterday was the
day Of the annual meeting. and 40 many of
the hospitals IN ers, trustees and super
visors came In carriages that policemen
were busy all the latter part Of the after
noon keeping Fifty-ninth street in from,
Of the hospital clear enough for the tram
cars and the general traffic.
Among shosG wh2 attended y the meeting
and Mrs Morton. Mrs Russell Sage, Mrs.
James A. Burden. Mrs. John DreXel Mr..
and Mrs, Dou las Robinson, President
Roosevelts brother-in-law and sister; Mr..
and and Mr. NV wI liam Jay SShiee,ina Mr.
Whitelaw Reid, Mrs william D. Sloane,
ander. Mrs. VI. s. Cowles. President Roose-
velt's sister: Mrs. Henry Goldman Potter.
Mrs. E. Fahri. Mrs. william NJ Bliss,
Mrs. J. Archibald Murray. Mrs. Charles
de Rham. Jr, Mrs. Henry u. Rowland
Mrs. Louisa Lee Schuyler, Mrs. John Min
turn and Mrs. Frank Witherbee.
Most of the on-protessional visitors
went straight to the meeting room and
there awaited DR.. Lorenz's coming, but
Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Sage, Mrs. Drexel
and Miss Watson went to the operating room
to see the Vienna surgeon reduce bilGteral
dislocation of the hip in Josephine kehoe
fully performed in very few minutes.
After the operation DR.. Lorenz came
down to the meeting room. where he receiv-
ed welcoming round of applause from
the women.
DR.. Russell A. Iibbs, the surgeon in
chief, In presenting his report said that
twenty successful Lorenz operations had
been performed at the hospital during the
year.
DR.; jacob read a paper, in the course of
which he said:
We are. often. told that among the hum
dreds Of no .pitals and dispcnsaries of this
citv and its neichborhood MANY could be
spared TINT mixture Of altruistic sentiment.
knowledge Is the origin OF MANY of them:
and that they were better discontinued
Brit pyexperience In many public institute ions
of 20 me kind or another extending over nearly
half a century am prepared to believe TINT
those reproaches are sometimes justified
But the class OF patients YOU receive in this
hospital and dispenSary admit of no fear Of
deceit, nor their necessities of any doubt
Their looks their lameness and their crutc hes
bctray them.
DR.. Lorenz in his speech paid a tribute
TO American hospitals and public chart
tics, and continued: 1T is indeed great
thing to make of these little patients per-
feet children. so perfect that no one can
tell that there has ever been a deformity
That Il what this hospital does. Let me
congratulate you all, and especially L.,
me congratulate the ladies on their interest
In this work."
Az the meeting broke up great many
of the women and some OF the men pre- seed
forward to mee. the doctor. Often, rs
women were presented. he would lean
forward and press his lips 10 their ham
and for any woman who could screw up
courage to spenk more than word he Ean
an answer ready and gallant One woman
gasped: 1T ia an honor" "a the doctor
took her hand. "To me-" said he, before
she could recover breath
At st. Luke's Hospital yesterday noon
DR.. Lorenz took luncheon with Dr. r.
IIalstcad MYERS and SUIT. Culver. DR..
Karl Beck, his host at dinner, took him,
late In the evening to tho foriy-second
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